four-o'clock family

What does four-o'clock family mean?

four-o'clock family means "a family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales".

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

Close synonyms include Nyctaginaceae, family Nyctaginaceae, Allioniaceae, family Allioniaceae. 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 four-o'clock family a common word?

four-o'clock family 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for four-o'clock family come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.