marvel-of-peru

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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

   Synonymscommon four-o'clockMirabilis jalapaMirabilis uniflora

   Broaderfour o'clock

Questions about marvel-of-peru

What does marvel-of-peru mean?

marvel-of-peru means "common garden plant of North America having fragrant red or purple or yellow or white flowers that open in late afternoon".

How many syllables are in marvel-of-peru?

marvel-of-peru has 5 syllables: mar-ve-l-of--pe-ru. The stress falls on "l-of-".

What is another word for marvel-of-peru?

Close synonyms include common four-o'clock, 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 marvel-of-peru a common word?

marvel-of-peru 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.