Definitions
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- noun chiefly North American herbs with usually nocturnal flowers
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Examples
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Not true primroses, but a clear true yellow color, a fairy favorite, this oenothera, cultivar unknown, has flowers that stay open during the day, unlike some evening primroses.
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Nyssa sylvatica oaks odd plants oenothera Missouriensis oil insecticides okra old-fashioned gardens
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Omphalodes linifolia. oenothera rosea and tetraptera.
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Matthiolas or stocks. oenothera rosea; Lamarckiana;
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Of such are adlumia, Canterbury bell, lunaria, ipomopsis, oenothera Lamarckiana; and foxglove, valerian, and some other perennials would better be treated as biennials.
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It is doubtful whether this is the oenothera of the ancients.
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On one part of the shore of the river, he was delighted by the appearance of a great number of plants, of a species of oenothera, each plant being covered with hundreds of large golden yellow flowers.
Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe William Bingley 1798
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Considered good credit score has been munificently for as linearly as i can perceptivity, and uncarpeted to korea one of the goddamned oenothera in daubentoniidae, unco the imputable has been rallentando bonelike in spirited gadfly.
Rational Review 2009
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H ibitat in Cai-nioiiae oenothera bienni, fpumans, fptimarta major i an ex cercopidum tribii? carnioli - 161.
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simmondsia chinensis (jojoba) seed, organic essential fatty acids of oenothera biennis
The Beauty Brains Left Brain 2010
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