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Night-blooming cereus

noun
1.
Any of several night-blooming cacti of the genus Selenicereus.
2.
Any of several cacti of the genus Hylocereus.
3.
Any of several cacti of the genus Cereus.





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"Night-blooming cereus" Quotes from Famous Books



... the violet writes a book on "Expression as I Have Found It," making laws for the evolution of beautiful blossoms, it leaves the Century Plant out of its equation, or else swears, i' faith, that a cactus is not a flower, and that a Night-Blooming Cereus is a disordered thought from a madman's brain. And when the proud and lofty cactus writes a book it never mentions violets, because it has never stooped ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 • Elbert Hubbard


Words linked to "Night-blooming cereus" :   genus Cereus, queen of the night, genus Selenicereus, Hylocereus, cactus, Cereus, Selenicereus grandiflorus, Selenicereus, genus Hylocereus


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