Definition of Genus Mirabilis

1. Noun. Four o'clocks.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mirabilis

genus Micropogonias
genus Micropterus
genus Microsorium
genus Microsporum
genus Microstomus
genus Microstrobos
genus Microtus
genus Micruroides
genus Micrurus
genus Mikania
genus Millettia
genus Miltonia
genus Mimosa
genus Mimus
genus Minuartia
genus Mirabilis (current term)
genus Mirounga
genus Mitchella
genus Mitella
genus Mnium
genus Mobula
genus Moehringia
genus Mohria
genus Mola
genus Mollienesia
genus Molluga
genus Moloch
genus Molothrus
genus Molucella
genus Molva

Literary usage of Genus Mirabilis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"... genus Mirabilis MIRABILIS (Latin, mirabilis, admirable, wonderful). A genus of about ten species of tuberous-rooted perennial herbs, with opposite ..."

2. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1899)
"... hybrids in the genus Mirabilis vary almost infinitely, and he describes new and singular characters in the form of the seeds, in the colour of the ..."

3. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1887)
"... hybrids in the genus Mirabilis vary almost infinitely, and he describes new and singular characters in the form of the seeds, in the colour of the ..."

4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... (mär'vel-ov-pe-rö'), »• A plant of the genus Mirabilis, M. Jalapa, native in tropical America, and common in flower-gardens ; the four-o'clock. ..."

5. An Introduction to Latin Syntax, Or, An Exemplification of the Rules of by John Mair, George Edmund Ironside (1813)
"Titus succeeded Vespasian, a Vespasianus Titus suc- man admirable for all sorts of cedo, vir omnis virtus virtues, so lhat he was called the genus mirabilis ..."

6. Recent Progress in the Study of Variation, Heredity, and Evolution by Robert Heath Lock (1906)
"An extreme instance of this circumstance was met with in the case of the genus Mirabilis. Mirabilis jalapa was easily fertilized with pollen from M. ..."

7. Variation in Animals and Plants by Horace Middleton Vernon (1903)
"... says that hybrids in the genus Mirabilis vary almost infinitely, and he describes new and singular characters in the seeds, anthers, and cotyledons. ..."

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