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ˈnight-flowering, a. [f. night n. 12 a + flowering ppl. a.] Blooming by night.
1810M. Cutler in Life, etc. (1888) II. 342 Saw the cactus grandiflora, or night-flowering cereus. 1849Balfour Man. Bot. §883 Some of the plants are noted as night-flowering. 1855Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. I. 138 The Night-flowering Stock (Matthiola tristis). |