selenicereus grandiflorus

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   tropical American climbing cactus having triangular branches; often cultivated for its large showy night-blooming flowers followed by yellow red-streaked fruits

   Synonymsqueen of the night

   Broadernight-blooming cereus

Questions about selenicereus grandiflorus

What does selenicereus grandiflorus mean?

selenicereus grandiflorus means "tropical American climbing cactus having triangular branches; often cultivated for its large showy night-blooming flowers followed by yellow red-streaked fruits".

What is another word for selenicereus grandiflorus?

Close synonyms include queen of the night. 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 selenicereus grandiflorus a common word?

selenicereus grandiflorus 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.