| 单词 | marvel of peru |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarvel of Peru marvel of Peru n. [compare French merveille du Pérou (1667), Spanish maravílla del Perú (1706 or earlier)] an ornamental plant, Mirabilis jalapa (family Nyctaginaceae), native to tropical America, which produces terminal clusters of handsome funnel-shaped flowers opening in the late afternoon and withering the following morning. Also †marvel of the world (obsolete). Also figurative.Also called false jalap, four o'clock flower, pretty-by-night.extracted from marveln.1< as lemmas |
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