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Definition of Mirabilis
1. Noun. Four o'clocks.
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Allioniaceae, Family Allioniaceae, Family Nyctaginaceae, Four-o'clock Family, Nyctaginaceae
Member holonyms: Umbrellawort, Four O'clock, California Four O'clock, Mirabilis Californica, Mirabilis Laevis
Definition of Mirabilis
1. n. A genus of plants. See Four- o'clock.
Definition of Mirabilis
1. Noun. (botany) Any of the plant genus ''Mirabilis''; a four-o'clock. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Mirabilis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mirabilis
Literary usage of Mirabilis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"ANNUS mirabilis THE YEAR OF WONDERS, 1666 AN HISTORICAL POEM CONTAINING THE ...
\Annus mirabilis was licensed for the press on November, 1660, ..."
2. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1900)
"mirabilis longiflora fertilised by the pollen of M. jalapa has given me an interesting
... Monsieur Lepelletier had previously obtained a hybrid mirabilis, ..."
3. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"mirabilis Jala/pa, the Marvel of Peru, has been an ornament of British gardens
... b> mirabilis DICHOTOMA (divided in two). Stem forking, 2 or 3 teet high. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1902)
"... mirabilis is a fungus found as a parasite on Spanish chestnuts' and so far
nothing beyond the mode of development of its characteristic chlamydospores, ..."
5. A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on by Thomas Arnold (1873)
"In Dryden's Annus mirabilis the defects of this style are less apparent, ...
Yet, after all, the Annus mirabilis is a dull poem; few readers would now ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"In the latter the most remarkable is Plate 25, showing a desert, with several
plants of Welwitschia mirabilis in the ..."
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