Mirabilis

Mi`rab´i`lis

prop. n.

1.

(Bot.) A genus of plants. See Four-o'clock.

Thesaurus

Noun

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Mirabilis - four o'clocks genus Mirabilis caryophylloid dicot genus - genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers Allioniaceae, family Allioniaceae, family Nyctaginaceae, four-o'clock family, Nyctaginaceae - a family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales umbrellawort - a plant of the genus Mirabilis four o'clock - any of several plants of the genus Mirabilis having flowers that open in late afternoon California four o'clock, Mirabilis californica, Mirabilis laevis - California four o'clock with purple-red flowers