Moonflower

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈmuːnflaÊŠÉ™/

Origin

From moon + flower.

Full definition of moonflower

Noun

1. Any of several plants that flower at night:
1. (obsolete) The , 18th-19th c.
2. The corn marigold, .
3. Any of several vines of the genus Ipomoea, especially . from 19th c.
• 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 46:Hôtel Saint-George … through whose exotic gardens of giant contorted euphorbia and sweet-smelling moonflowers Churchill and the titans of the Second World War strolled, laying plans for a world in which Anglo-Saxon predominance seemed assured in perpetuity.
4. Species in genus Cereus and in .
5. Species of Datura, including Datura inoxia.
6. Species of Mentzelia, including .