trailing four o'clock

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   trailing plant having crowded clusters of 3 brilliant deep pink flowers resembling a single flower blooming near the ground; found in dry gravelly or sandy soil; southwestern United States and Mexico

   Synonymstrailing windmillsAllionia incarnata

   Broaderwildflower

   Part ofAllionia

Questions about trailing four o'clock

What does trailing four o'clock mean?

trailing four o'clock means "trailing plant having crowded clusters of 3 brilliant deep pink flowers resembling a single flower blooming near the ground; found in dry gravelly or sandy soil; southwestern United States and Mexico".

What is another word for trailing four o'clock?

Close synonyms include trailing windmills, Allionia incarnata. 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 trailing four o'clock a common word?

trailing 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.