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maravilla

maravilla \maravilla\ n.

  1. A wildflower ( Mirabilis multiflora) having vibrant deep pink tubular evening-blooming flowers; found in sandy and desert areas from Southern California to Southern Colorado and into Mexico.

    Syn: desert four o'clock, Colorado four o'clock, Mirabilis multiflora.

  2. A leafy wildflower ( Mirabilis longiflora) having fragrant slender white or pale pink trumpet-shaped flowers; found in the Southwestern US and Northern Mexico.

    Syn: sweet four o'clock, Mirabilis longiflora.

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maravilla

  1. n. wildflower having vibrant deep pink tubular evening-blooming flowers; found in sandy and desert areas from southern California to southern Colorado and into Mexico [syn: desert four o'clock, Colorado four o'clock, Mirabilis multiflora]

  2. leafy wildflower having fragrant slender white or pale pink trumpet-shaped flowers; southwestern United States and northern Mexico [syn: sweet four o'clock, Mirabilis longiflora]

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Maravilla

Maravilla is a name that is Spanish for "wonder". It may refer to:

Usage examples of "maravilla".

Each folded and bagged copy of the Tuesday edition of the Maravilla County Times spun through the air and landed with a soft thwop on a driveway or a front walk, precisely where the subscriber preferred to have it.

THE RECENT construction of a five-story apartment building made longtime resi­dents dizzy with an unwanted sense of metropolitan crowding and led to editorials in the Maravilla County Times that used phrases like "high-rise blight," and worried about a future of "heartless canyons of bleak design, in which people are reduced to the status of drones in a hive, and into which the sun never fully reaches.

I have not even seen the farther reaches of Maravilla County, of which our town is the county seat.

I have seldom crossed the city line of Pico Mundo and have never been beyond the boundaries of Maravilla County.

I dropped onto the property of the Maravilla County Flood-Control Project less than ten seconds after reaching the alley side of the fence.

She's tripping the light fantastic at 2245 Maravilla, Hollywood Hills.