English words for 'That flowers at night.'
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noun
adj
- (of flowers) In bloom.
- (of the tide) At or near its lowest level.
- (of options) No longer acceptable or permissible.
- Without; no longer in possession of; not having any more.
- Not in jail, prison, or captivity; freed from confinement.
- (in various games; used especially of a batsman or batter in cricket or baseball) Dismissed from play under the rules of the game.
- (of an organization, etc.) Temporarily not in operation, or not being attended as usual.
- No longer popular or in fashion.
- Freed from secrecy.
- (by extension, uncommon) Open, public; public about or openly acknowledging some (usually specified) identity.
- (LGBTQ) Openly acknowledging that one is LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc).
- (of lamps, fires etc.) Not shining or burning.
- (of the sun, moon or stars) Visible in the sky; not obscured by clouds.
- Not inside or within a place, especially a place that someone or something was formerly inside or is customarily inside:
- Not fitted or inserted into something.
- (of a user of a service) Not having availability of a service, such as power or communications.
- (Australia, of calculations or measurements) Containing errors or discrepancies, or in error by a stated amount.
- Released, available for purchase, download or other use.
- Not at home, or not at one's office or place of employment.
- (sports, of the ball or other playing implement) Falling or passing or being situated beyond the bounds of the playing area.
- (of certain services, devices, or facilities) Not available; out of service.
- Unconscious.
- (of ideas, plans, etc.) Discarded; no longer a possibility.
- out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election
- not allowed to continue to bat or run
- knocked unconscious by a heavy blow
- outside or external
- no longer fashionable
- directed outward or serving to direct something outward
- outer or outlying
- not worth considering as a possibility
- excluded from use or mention
- being out or having grown cold
adv
- Away from the doer, especially vigorously.
- (of the sun, moon, stars, etc.) So as to be visible in the sky, and not covered by clouds, fog, etc.
- Used to intensify or emphasize.
- To the end; completely; so that nothing remains.
- Outside; not indoors.
- Away from, or at a distance from, some point of reference or focus.
- Into a state of existence or visibility.
- Specifically, away from home or one's usual place.
- Shows that an activity has been completed to the point of exhaustion.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- (sports) Of the ball or other playing implement, so as to pass or be situated beyond the bounds of the playing area.
- Away from the inside or centre.
- (cricket, baseball, of a player) So as to be disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket or a forced out in baseball).
- (informal) Away, or at a distance, in time (relative to, and usually after, the present or a stated event) (often preceded by a stated time period and followed by "from")
- moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden
- away from home
- from one's possession
intj
noun
- (baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fielding team before bouncing, etc.
- A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
- (chiefly in the plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
- (poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.
- (film, colloquial) An outtake.
- A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
- (cricket) A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicket with the ball.
- (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball
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verb
- (intransitive) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public, revealed, or apparent.
- To kill; to snuff out.
- (transitive) To reveal (a secret).
- (transitive) To eject; to expel.
- (transitive) To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
- (transitive, LGBTQ) To reveal (a person) as LGBTQ+ (gay, trans, etc).
- reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle
- be made known; be disclosed or revealed
- to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
intj
noun
- (uncountable) Nightfall.
- (countable) The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
- (sports, colloquial) A night's worth of competitions, generally one game.
- (law, countable) A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
- (countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
- (astronomy, countable) The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
- (uncountable) A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
- (countable) A day, or at least a night.
- (uncountable) Darkness (due to it being nighttime).
- the period spent sleeping
- the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
- the time between sunset and midnight
- darkness
- the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit
- a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
- a shortening of nightfall
verb
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noun
- a flower that blooms in a particular way
- A blooming flower.
- an embarrassing mistake
- (informal, originally Australia) A large or embarrassing mistake; blunder.
- (historical) A reform costume for women, consisting of a short dress with loose trousers gathered around the ankles, and often a broad-brimmed hat.
- A circular loaf of white bread.
- (figurative) One who blooms, matures, or develops.
- An ironworker.
- Attributive form of bloomers.
- (historical, by extension) A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.
noun
- (botany) A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
- The hibernation of animals.
- (uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
- (countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
- (informal, metonymic) A night.
- (uncountable) Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a period of time spent sleeping
- a torpid state resembling deep sleep
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
verb
- (intransitive, euphemistic, idiomatic) To be dead.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
- (computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.
- (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
- (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
- (computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
- (intransitive, mechanics, dynamics) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- (transitive, mechanics, dynamics) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- (transitive) To accommodate in beds.
- (idiomatic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).
- be able to accommodate for sleeping
- be asleep
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adj
noun
adj
- (botany) Said of a flower that is open, or releasing its perfume during daylight hours, but not at night.
- Having a daily cycle that is completed every 24 hours, usually referring to tasks, processes, tides, or sunrise to sunset; circadian.
- Happening or occurring during daylight, or primarily active during that time.
- (uncommon) Done once every day; daily, quotidian.
- having a daily cycle or occurring every day
- of or belonging to or active during the day
adj
noun
- (countable, uncountable) A creamy white colour, like that of some magnolia flowers.
- (countable) A native or resident of the American state of Mississippi.
- (countable) The flower of a magnolia tree.
- (countable) A tree or shrub in any species of the genus Magnolia, many with large flowers and simple leaves.
- dried bark of various magnolias; used in folk medicine
- any shrub or tree of the genus Magnolia; valued for their longevity and exquisite fragrant blooms
noun
- A pale purple color, the color of some lilac flowers.
- A large shrub of the genus Syringa, especially Syringa vulgaris, bearing white, pale-pink, or purple flowers.
- A cat having a lilac-colored (pale brown) coat.
- A flower of the lilac shrub.
- any of various plants of the genus Syringa having large panicles of usually fragrant flowers
adj
noun
- A flower of these plants.
- A perfume obtained from this plant or imitating the odour of its flowers.
- Any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria, having fragrant, showy, funnel-shaped flowers of a wide range of colours from creamy to red.
- Alternative form of frangipane (“cream made from ground almonds; pastry filled with this cream”).
- any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers
noun
noun
- A small spike of flowers.
- A needle-like mating structure found only in male nematodes.
- (biology) Any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges.
- A tiny glass flake formed during the manufacture of glass vials.
- A sharp, needle-like piece.
- (astronomy) A jet of matter ejected from the photosphere of the sun.
- (historical) A unit of mass equal to 125 pounds.
- small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals
noun
- Bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara.
- Plants in the genus Cestrum: Cestrum nocturnum, Cestrum parqui.
- Bluebead lily, Clintonia borealis.
- Any other berry of a plant in the nightshade family, Solanaceae, most of which are poisonous at least when unripe.
- Pokeweed.
- The deadly nightshade.
- Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible
noun
- The European black nightshade, Solanum nigrum.
- A historic heirloom shrub, Solanum retroflexum.
- The dark blue-purple fruit of Solanum retroflexum, often combined with sugar in desserts.
- The dark poisonous berry of Solanum nigrum.
- improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries
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noun
- Bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara).
- Bittersweetness.
- A variety of apple with a bittersweet taste.
- (US) A vine, of the genus Celastrus, having small orange fruit that open to reveal red seeds.
- A pinkish-orange color. Any color in between scarlet and orange.
- Any variety of clam in the family Glycymerididae
- twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
- poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
adj
noun
- Any of several plants likened to nightshade, usually because of similar dark-colored berries.
- Belladonna or deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).
- Any of the poisonous plants belonging to the genus Solanum, especially black nightshade or woody nightshade.
- (colloquial) Any plant of the wider Solanaceae family, including the nightshades as well as tomato, potato, eggplant, and deadly nightshade.
- any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit
noun
- A giant water lily, Victoria amazonica, with circular leaves of up to 8 feet in diameter having large white female flowers that bloom at night, and change to pink male ones the next night.
- A bulbous plant, Eucharis amazonica, of the family Amaryllidaceae, having tight, compact rosettes of glossy green leaves and tall spikes of white, fragrant flowers.
noun
noun
- a flower that blooms in a particular way
- A blooming flower.
- an embarrassing mistake
- (informal, originally Australia) A large or embarrassing mistake; blunder.
- (historical) A reform costume for women, consisting of a short dress with loose trousers gathered around the ankles, and often a broad-brimmed hat.
- A circular loaf of white bread.
- (figurative) One who blooms, matures, or develops.
- An ironworker.
- Attributive form of bloomers.
- (historical, by extension) A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.
noun
- (botany) A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
- The hibernation of animals.
- (uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
- (countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
- (informal, metonymic) A night.
- (uncountable) Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a period of time spent sleeping
- a torpid state resembling deep sleep
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
verb
- (intransitive, euphemistic, idiomatic) To be dead.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
- (computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.
- (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
- (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
- (computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
- (intransitive, mechanics, dynamics) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- (transitive, mechanics, dynamics) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- (transitive) To accommodate in beds.
- (idiomatic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).
- be able to accommodate for sleeping
- be asleep
noun
adj
- (botany) Said of a flower that is open, or releasing its perfume during daylight hours, but not at night.
- Having a daily cycle that is completed every 24 hours, usually referring to tasks, processes, tides, or sunrise to sunset; circadian.
- Happening or occurring during daylight, or primarily active during that time.
- (uncommon) Done once every day; daily, quotidian.
- having a daily cycle or occurring every day
- of or belonging to or active during the day
noun
- A pale purple color, the color of some lilac flowers.
- A large shrub of the genus Syringa, especially Syringa vulgaris, bearing white, pale-pink, or purple flowers.
- A cat having a lilac-colored (pale brown) coat.
- A flower of the lilac shrub.
- any of various plants of the genus Syringa having large panicles of usually fragrant flowers
adj
noun
- A flower of these plants.
- A perfume obtained from this plant or imitating the odour of its flowers.
- Any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria, having fragrant, showy, funnel-shaped flowers of a wide range of colours from creamy to red.
- Alternative form of frangipane (“cream made from ground almonds; pastry filled with this cream”).
- any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers
noun
noun
- A small spike of flowers.
- A needle-like mating structure found only in male nematodes.
- (biology) Any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges.
- A tiny glass flake formed during the manufacture of glass vials.
- A sharp, needle-like piece.
- (astronomy) A jet of matter ejected from the photosphere of the sun.
- (historical) A unit of mass equal to 125 pounds.
- small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals
noun
- Bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara.
- Plants in the genus Cestrum: Cestrum nocturnum, Cestrum parqui.
- Bluebead lily, Clintonia borealis.
- Any other berry of a plant in the nightshade family, Solanaceae, most of which are poisonous at least when unripe.
- Pokeweed.
- The deadly nightshade.
- Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible
noun
- The European black nightshade, Solanum nigrum.
- A historic heirloom shrub, Solanum retroflexum.
- The dark blue-purple fruit of Solanum retroflexum, often combined with sugar in desserts.
- The dark poisonous berry of Solanum nigrum.
- improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries
noun
- Bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara).
- Bittersweetness.
- A variety of apple with a bittersweet taste.
- (US) A vine, of the genus Celastrus, having small orange fruit that open to reveal red seeds.
- A pinkish-orange color. Any color in between scarlet and orange.
- Any variety of clam in the family Glycymerididae
- twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
- poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
adj
noun
- Any of several plants likened to nightshade, usually because of similar dark-colored berries.
- Belladonna or deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).
- Any of the poisonous plants belonging to the genus Solanum, especially black nightshade or woody nightshade.
- (colloquial) Any plant of the wider Solanaceae family, including the nightshades as well as tomato, potato, eggplant, and deadly nightshade.
- any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit
noun
- A giant water lily, Victoria amazonica, with circular leaves of up to 8 feet in diameter having large white female flowers that bloom at night, and change to pink male ones the next night.
- A bulbous plant, Eucharis amazonica, of the family Amaryllidaceae, having tight, compact rosettes of glossy green leaves and tall spikes of white, fragrant flowers.
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adj
- (of flowers) In bloom.
- (of the tide) At or near its lowest level.
- (of options) No longer acceptable or permissible.
- Without; no longer in possession of; not having any more.
- Not in jail, prison, or captivity; freed from confinement.
- (in various games; used especially of a batsman or batter in cricket or baseball) Dismissed from play under the rules of the game.
- (of an organization, etc.) Temporarily not in operation, or not being attended as usual.
- No longer popular or in fashion.
- Freed from secrecy.
- (by extension, uncommon) Open, public; public about or openly acknowledging some (usually specified) identity.
- (LGBTQ) Openly acknowledging that one is LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc).
- (of lamps, fires etc.) Not shining or burning.
- (of the sun, moon or stars) Visible in the sky; not obscured by clouds.
- Not inside or within a place, especially a place that someone or something was formerly inside or is customarily inside:
- Not fitted or inserted into something.
- (of a user of a service) Not having availability of a service, such as power or communications.
- (Australia, of calculations or measurements) Containing errors or discrepancies, or in error by a stated amount.
- Released, available for purchase, download or other use.
- Not at home, or not at one's office or place of employment.
- (sports, of the ball or other playing implement) Falling or passing or being situated beyond the bounds of the playing area.
- (of certain services, devices, or facilities) Not available; out of service.
- Unconscious.
- (of ideas, plans, etc.) Discarded; no longer a possibility.
- out of power; especially having been unsuccessful in an election
- not allowed to continue to bat or run
- knocked unconscious by a heavy blow
- outside or external
- no longer fashionable
- directed outward or serving to direct something outward
- outer or outlying
- not worth considering as a possibility
- excluded from use or mention
- being out or having grown cold
adv
- Away from the doer, especially vigorously.
- (of the sun, moon, stars, etc.) So as to be visible in the sky, and not covered by clouds, fog, etc.
- Used to intensify or emphasize.
- To the end; completely; so that nothing remains.
- Outside; not indoors.
- Away from, or at a distance from, some point of reference or focus.
- Into a state of existence or visibility.
- Specifically, away from home or one's usual place.
- Shows that an activity has been completed to the point of exhaustion.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- (sports) Of the ball or other playing implement, so as to pass or be situated beyond the bounds of the playing area.
- Away from the inside or centre.
- (cricket, baseball, of a player) So as to be disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket or a forced out in baseball).
- (informal) Away, or at a distance, in time (relative to, and usually after, the present or a stated event) (often preceded by a stated time period and followed by "from")
- moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden
- away from home
- from one's possession
intj
noun
- (baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fielding team before bouncing, etc.
- A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
- (chiefly in the plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
- (poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.
- (film, colloquial) An outtake.
- A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
- (cricket) A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicket with the ball.
- (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball
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verb
- (intransitive) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public, revealed, or apparent.
- To kill; to snuff out.
- (transitive) To reveal (a secret).
- (transitive) To eject; to expel.
- (transitive) To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
- (transitive, LGBTQ) To reveal (a person) as LGBTQ+ (gay, trans, etc).
- reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle
- be made known; be disclosed or revealed
- to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
adj
adj
noun
- (countable, uncountable) A creamy white colour, like that of some magnolia flowers.
- (countable) A native or resident of the American state of Mississippi.
- (countable) The flower of a magnolia tree.
- (countable) A tree or shrub in any species of the genus Magnolia, many with large flowers and simple leaves.
- dried bark of various magnolias; used in folk medicine
- any shrub or tree of the genus Magnolia; valued for their longevity and exquisite fragrant blooms
noun
adj
- (botany) Said of a flower that is open, or releasing its perfume during daylight hours, but not at night.
- Having a daily cycle that is completed every 24 hours, usually referring to tasks, processes, tides, or sunrise to sunset; circadian.
- Happening or occurring during daylight, or primarily active during that time.
- (uncommon) Done once every day; daily, quotidian.
- having a daily cycle or occurring every day
- of or belonging to or active during the day