"evening primrose" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: evening primroses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} evening primrose (plural evening primroses)
  1. Any of various flowering plants of the genus Oenothera or Camissonia, in the family Onagraceae, Categories (lifeform): Evening primrose family plants, Flowers
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  2. Any of various flowering plants of the genus Oenothera or Camissonia, in the family Onagraceae,
    especially the common evening primrose, Oenothera biennis.
    Categories (lifeform): Evening primrose family plants, Flowers Derived forms: bigfruit evening primrose, common evening primrose (taxonomic: Oenothera biennis), evening primrose oil, Missouri evening primrose
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  3. Any plant of family Onagraceae, the evening primrose family. Categories (lifeform): Evening primrose family plants, Flowers
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (Oenothera biennis): bella de nit [feminine] (Catalan), 月見草 (Chinese Mandarin), 月见草 (yuèjiàncǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), middelste teunisbloem [feminine] (Dutch), iltahelokki (Finnish), wiesiołek dwuletni [masculine] (Polish), onagra [feminine] (Portuguese), luminița-nopții [feminine] (Romanian), luminiță-de-seară [feminine] (Romanian), iarba-asinului [feminine] (Romanian), hierba del asno [feminine] (Spanish) Translations (flowering plant of the genus Oenothera): onagra [feminine] (Catalan), enotera [feminine] (Catalan), 柳葉菜科 (Chinese Mandarin), 柳叶菜科 (liǔxiécàikē) (Chinese Mandarin), teunisbloem [feminine] (Dutch), helokki (Finnish), Nachtkerze [feminine] (German), νυχτολούλουδο (nychtoloúloudo) [feminine] (Greek), 月見草 (getsukensō) (alt: げつけんそう) (Japanese), 달맞이꽃 (dalmajikkot) (Korean), tłʼééʼ yiigáhii (Navajo), wiesiołek [masculine] (Polish), enotera [feminine] (Portuguese), luminiță [feminine] (Romanian), onagra [feminine] (Spanish) Translations (plant of the family Onagraceae): horsmakasvi (Finnish)
Disambiguation of 'Oenothera biennis': 36 43 22 Disambiguation of 'flowering plant of the genus Oenothera': 46 46 7 Disambiguation of 'plant of the family Onagraceae': 32 32 36

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      "word": "hierba del asno"
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          "text": "The evening primrose plant family (Onagraceae) offers an ideal system to test predictions relating to the role of sexual recombination and segregation on diversification (Fig. 1). In many evening primrose species […].",
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          "text": "The Myrtaceae is a dicot family in the class Rosidae which also includes the rose and mallow families and falls into the order Myrtales along with the families Lathraceae, Punicaceae (pomegranates) and Onagraceae (evening primroses)",
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      "code": "ca",
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      "word": "柳葉菜科"
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      "sense": "flowering plant of the genus Oenothera",
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      "sense": "Oenothera biennis",
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  "word": "evening primrose"
}

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