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n. (plural of moonflower English)
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The Moonflowers were a Bristol-based rock band formed in 1987. The band was active as a performing and recording unit until 1997. To date they have released eight EPs and seven LPs on their own PopGod Records label, home to numerous other Bristol-based artists including Praise Space Electric (a Moonflowers spin-off featuring members of that band), Me, Ecstatic Orange, Mammal among others.
Famed for colourful and spectacular live shows, designed and built by Liam Yeates. They have toured extensively in the UK, Europe and Japan.
Usage examples of "moonflowers".
So heartened, he stumbled on to feel the healing of the moonflowers, as well as an inpouring of energy.
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.