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SWEET FOUR O'CLOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sweet four o'clock mean? 

SWEET FOUR O'CLOCK (noun)
  The noun SWEET FOUR O'CLOCK has 1 sense:

1. leafy wildflower having fragrant slender white or pale pink trumpet-shaped flowers; southwestern United States and northern Mexicoplay

  Familiarity information: SWEET FOUR O'CLOCK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SWEET FOUR O'CLOCK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Leafy wildflower having fragrant slender white or pale pink trumpet-shaped flowers; southwestern United States and northern Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

maravilla; Mirabilis longiflora; sweet four o'clock

Hypernyms ("sweet four o'clock" is a kind of...):

four o'clock (any of several plants of the genus Mirabilis having flowers that open in late afternoon)


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