Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Blooming or blossoming in the night.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Blooming in the night.
- adjective (Bot.) See Note under
Cereus .
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Examples
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Archie Coleman, who filled his quarters with Turkish antiques and tended to be a braggart, was put in charge of overseeing another chain of agents code-named “Cereus,” after a night-blooming cactus in the American West.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Datura waved the sisters to the couch by a glass coffee table piled with books on night-blooming plants.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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The cool, moist night smelled of rain-wet brick, the Mississippi, and night-blooming jasmine.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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The cool, moist night smelled of rain-wet brick, the Mississippi, and night-blooming jasmine.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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Datura waved the sisters to the couch by a glass coffee table piled with books on night-blooming plants.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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The cool, moist night smelled of rain-wet brick, the Mississippi, and night-blooming jasmine.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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Archie Coleman, who filled his quarters with Turkish antiques and tended to be a braggart, was put in charge of overseeing another chain of agents code-named “Cereus,” after a night-blooming cactus in the American West.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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At the gate, Reem broke off a small branch of night-blooming jasmine and handed it to me.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Datura waved the sisters to the couch by a glass coffee table piled with books on night-blooming plants.
Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011
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The cool, moist night smelled of rain-wet brick, the Mississippi, and night-blooming jasmine.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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