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evening primrose

evening primrose noun: any of various flowering plants of the genus Oenothera or Camissonia, in the family Onagraceae,.

evening primrose: any of various flowering plants of the genus Oenothera or Camissonia, in the family Onagraceae,
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Noun

evening primrose (plural evening primroses)

  1. Any of various flowering plants of the genus Oenothera or Camissonia, in the family Onagraceae,
    1. especially the common evening primrose, Oenothera biennis.
  2. Any plant of family Onagraceae, the evening primrose family.
    • The evening primrose plant family (Onagraceae) offers an ideal system to test predictions relating to the role of sexual recombination and segregation on diversification (Fig. 1). In many evening primrose species […].2011 June 7, Marc T. J. Johnson, Richard G. FitzJohn, Stacey D. Smith, Mark D. Rausher, Sarah P. Otto, “LOSS OF SEXUAL RECOMBINATION AND SEGREGATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED DIVERSIFICATION IN...
    • Specifically, we ask whether sexual evening primrose plant lineages (Onagraceae) have faster rates of adaptive molecular evolution and altered gene expression of a class I chitinase, a gene implicated in defence against pathogens, than functionally asexual evening primrose lineages.2012, E. I. HERSCH‐GREEN, H. MYBURG, M. T. J. JOHNSON, “Adaptive molecular evolution of a defence gene in sexual but not functionally asexual evening primroses”, in Journal of Evolutionary Biology...

Forms of evening primrose

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Words formed from evening primrose

Questions about evening primrose

What does evening primrose mean?
Evening primrose means any of various flowering plants of the genus Oenothera or Camissonia, in the family Onagraceae,.
What part of speech is evening primrose?
Evening primrose is a noun.
What is the plural of evening primrose?
The plural of evening primrose is evening primroses.

Words near evening primrose in the dictionary

  1. evening newspaper
  2. evening newspapers
  3. evening out
  4. evening prayer
  5. evening prayers
  6. evening primrose
  7. evening primrose oil
  8. evening primroses
  9. evening school
  10. evening schools
  11. evening star

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