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单词 evening flower
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evening flower
evening flower n. [after South African Dutch avondbloem (see aandblom n.)] Botany Obsolete any plant of the southern African genus Hesperantha (family Iridaceae), the members of which have sword-shaped leaves and star-shaped flowers which usually open in the evening; cf. aandblom n.
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1801 J. Barrow Acct. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–8 I. i. 25 The modest Ixia Cinnamomea, of which are two varieties, one called here the Cinnamon, and the other the evening, flower.
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1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Evening flower, Hesperantha.
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