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    MIRABILIS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Four o'clocksplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Mirabilis; Mirabilis

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Mirabilis" is a kind of...):

    caryophylloid dicot genus (genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers)

    Meronyms (members of "Mirabilis"):

    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)

    Holonyms ("Mirabilis" is a member of...):

    Allioniaceae; family Allioniaceae; family Nyctaginaceae; four-o'clock family; Nyctaginaceae (a family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales)

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