mirabilis : Idioms & Phrases


boletus mirabilis

  • noun a fungus that is edible when young and fresh; has a dark brown convex cap with a yellow to greenish under surface and reddish stalk
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genus mirabilis

  • noun four o'clocks
    Mirabilis.
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mirabilis californica

  • noun California four o'clock with purple-red flowers
    California four o'clock; Mirabilis californica.
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mirabilis jalapa

  • noun common garden plant of North America having fragrant red or purple or yellow or white flowers that open in late afternoon
    marvel-of-Peru; Mirabilis jalapa; common four-o'clock.
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mirabilis laevis

  • noun California four o'clock with purple-red flowers
    California four o'clock; Mirabilis californica.
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mirabilis longiflora

  • noun leafy wildflower having fragrant slender white or pale pink trumpet-shaped flowers; southwestern United States and northern Mexico
    sweet four o'clock; maravilla.
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mirabilis multiflora

  • noun wildflower having vibrant deep pink tubular evening-blooming flowers; found in sandy and desert areas from southern California to southern Colorado and into Mexico
    Colorado four o'clock; maravilla; desert four o'clock.
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mirabilis oblongifolia

  • noun leafy wildflower with lavender-pink flowers that open in the evening and remain through cool part of the next day; found in open woods or brush in mountains of southern Colorado to Arizona and into Mexico
    mountain four o'clock.
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mirabilis uniflora

  • noun common garden plant of North America having fragrant red or purple or yellow or white flowers that open in late afternoon
    marvel-of-Peru; Mirabilis jalapa; common four-o'clock.
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welwitschia mirabilis

  • noun curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old
    welwitschia.
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