common four-o'clock

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   common garden plant of North America having fragrant red or purple or yellow or white flowers that open in late afternoon

   Synonymsmarvel-of-PeruMirabilis jalapaMirabilis uniflora

   Broaderfour o'clock

Questions about common four-o'clock

What does common four-o'clock mean?

common four-o'clock means "common garden plant of North America having fragrant red or purple or yellow or white flowers that open in late afternoon".

What is another word for common four-o'clock?

Close synonyms include marvel-of-Peru, Mirabilis jalapa, Mirabilis uniflora. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common four-o'clock a common word?

common four-o'clock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.