Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants of the genus Commelina having delicate blue or purplish flowers that bloom for less than a day.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The popular name of plants of the genus Commelina.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus consisting mostly of tropical perennial herbs (Commelina), having ephemeral flowers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
plants , of the genus Commelina, whose flowers last only a day
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any plant of the family Commelinaceae
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Examples
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He printed one color a day, from light to dark-clamshell for white, red lead for tan, turmeric for yellow, redbud for pink, safflower for red, cochineal for crimson, dayflower for blue, lampblack for ebony-on soft mulberry paper.
December 6 Smith, Martin Cruz 2002
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When you look at the dayflower from above you will see the mouse-ear petals.
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In rice I recommend several herbicides for dayflower control.
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Bengal dayflower had 3.5 times more above ground biomass than
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With Permit, I do not recommend rates less than 1 ounce per acre when dayflower is present.
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The Bengal dayflower (also known as tropical spiderwort) is becoming an important species in Africa and Asia, not to mention, in irrigated fields.
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Each flower blooms only in the morning for one day, which is why this flower is known as the dayflower.
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If the site is favorable, the Asiatic dayflower can take over other plants.
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On small (one - to two-leaf) dayflower, any of the herbicides listed above will likely provide adequate early suppression or control.
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She writes: "The day's culinary highlight was our dinner salad of foraged Asiatic dayflower, lady's thumb, lamb's quarters and yellow wood sorrel.
Gothamist 2009
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