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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants of the family Onagraceae and especially the genus Oenothera of the Americas, having four-petaled usually yellow flowers that open in the evening and whose seeds yield an oil used in herbal medicine.
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- noun Various
flowering plants of thegenus Oenothera , in the familyOnagraceae , especially the common evening primrose, Oenothera biennis.
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- noun any of several plants of the family Onagraceae
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treeseed commented on the word evening primrose
(n): any of several dicotyledonous plants of a family (Onagraceae, the evening-primrose family) and especially of the type genus (Oenothera); especially : a coarse biennial herb (O. biennis) of North America with yellow flowers that open in the evening
January 24, 2008