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noun
1.
a common garden plant, Mirabilis jalapa, of the four-o'clock family, having tubular red, white, yellow, or variegated flowers that open late in the afternoon.
2.
any plant of the same genus.
Origin:
1750–60
1750–60
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Four-o'clock
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| four-o'clock | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Also called: marvel-of-Peru a tropical American nyctaginaceous plant, Mirabilis jalapa, cultivated for its tubular yellow, red, or white flowers that open in late afternoon |
| 2. | (Austral) another name for friarbird, esp the noisy friarbird (Philemon corniculatus): so called because of its cry |
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