Crossword clues for moonflower
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moonflower \Moon"flow`er\, n. (Bot.)
The oxeye daisy; -- called also moon daisy.
A kind of morning glory ( Ipom[oe]a Bona-nox) with large white flowers opening at night.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several plants that flower at night: 2 # (context obsolete English) The (vern ox-eye daisy pedia=1), (taxlink Leucanthemum vulgare species noshow=1) (18th-19th c.) 3 # The corn marigold, (taxlink Glebionis segetum species noshow=1). 4 # Any of several vines of the genus ''Ipomoea'', especially (taxlink Ipomoea alba species noshow=1). (from 19th c.) 5 # Species in genus ''Cereus'' and in (taxlink Hylocereus genus noshow=1). 6 # Species of ''Datura'', including ''Datura inoxia''. 7 # Species of ''Mentzelia'', including (taxlink Mentzelia pumila species noshow=1).
WordNet
n. pantropical climber having white fragrant nocturnal flowers [syn: belle de nuit, Ipomoea alba]
Wikipedia
Moonflower may refer to:
Moonflower is a studio and live double album by Santana, released in 1977. The recording features both studio and live tracks, which are interspersed with one another throughout the album. It is perhaps the group's most popular live album, because Lotus did not receive a U.S. domestic release until the early 1990s. It displays a mix between the fusion of Latin and blues- rock styles of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the much more experimental and spiritual jazz fusion sound that characterized the band's mid-1970s work. The live material was recorded during the supporting tour for the Festival album, which displayed a similar mix of styles, and many of the album's songs are featured here – namely, the three song medley which opens Festival.
A cover version of the Zombies' mid-1960s hit song " She's Not There" was released as a single and peaked at #27. The song was the first Santana recording to hit the Top 40 of the Billboard charts since " No One to Depend On" reached #36 in 1972. The album reached #10 on the Billboard charts and was eventually certified platinum, neither of which occurred again until the star-studded Supernatural in 1999.
Usage examples of "moonflower".
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Across her knees as she sat in the saddle was a short staff, hardly longer than a wand, and around its upper portion was wound a cluster of moonflowers, supposed only to bloom at night but here spilling out their fragrance in the day.
Rather, it was brighter than the moonflowers she had always carried to center her Power.
Then Bessie rose and bade him good-night in her pleasant voice, and with housewifely care inquired as to whether his room was to his taste, and how many blankets he liked upon his bed, telling him that if he found the odour of the moonflowers which grew near the verandah too strong, he had better shut the right-hand window and open that on the other side of the room.
He brushed aside the fern fronds and the moonflowers and sought a path that wound farther up in the direction of the gleaming tapers and the feasting.
Faces pale as moonflowers were pressed against the latticed windows of structures that seemed no larger than birdcages.
In her hands was a silver rod, wound about with the moonflowers I had first seen her harvesting.
That, too, grew, brightened, spread out and up, to make the petals of stone resemble those of the moonflowers, as if the rock carving was transformed by our force of desire into a living thing.
Then spake young Stephen orgulous of mother Church that would cast him out of her bosom, of law of canons, of Lilith, patron of abortions, of bigness wrought by wind of seeds of brightness or by potency of vampires mouth to mouth or, as Virgilius saith, by the influence of the occident or by the reek of moonflower or an she lie with a woman which her man has but lain with, effectu secuto, or peradventure in her bath according to the opinions of Averroes and Moses Maimonides.
The crest on his tabard, a bright-plummaged bird rising from flames, proclaimed him to be Phoenix Moonflower, the elf who, centuries before, had imbued the sword with its rapid strike.