night-blooming cereus

Questions about night-blooming cereus

What does night-blooming cereus mean?

night-blooming cereus means "any of several night-blooming cacti of the genus Selenicereus". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is night-blooming cereus a common word?

night-blooming cereus 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.