The Collaborative International Dictionary
Night-blooming \Night"-bloom`ing\, a. Blooming in the night.
Night-blooming cereus. (Bot.) See Note under Cereus.
Usage examples of "night-blooming".
She opened the back door, and he smelled plants moist with dew, night-blooming jasmine, the faint tang of the ocean.
She had the complexion of a night-blooming lily, dense lips that might have been molded from the meat of muskmelons, a longish nose that in its curl and grace resembled the scroll of a small violin, cheeks and chin whose juxtaposition of delicate bone to carefree baby fat combined the elegance of a racehorse with the robustness of a mule.
And what wasn't orange or apricot was cactus or epiphyllum or night-blooming jasmine.
There was a small gazebo, the latticed walls laced with vines, and the walks around it had been landscaped with all sorts of fragrant night-blooming bushes.
Her mind posed a wordless question and Jack replied: Night-blooming cereus.
The mescal and the beer and the tequila and the thick musky fragrance of the night-blooming cereus washed through his soul and left it tranquil.
The warm wind caressing his cheek carried a delicate trace of the night-blooming cereus flowers from the shrubbery up near the highway.
As I was to learn, he was usually somnolent and lazy in the morning, but he revived, like a night-blooming cereus, as twilight approached, and by midnight he was going strong.
Mustn't ignore it very bad form like not going to see the night-blooming cereus at the Punahou School.
Into an ungated courtyard of what looked like an abandoned house, shattered tumbledown heaps of masonry everywhere and a vining night-blooming cactus growing over everything like a tangle of terrible green snakes.
The idea of the full moons shining down on all that, not to mention an old well covered with wild ivy and night-blooming vines .
The idea of the full moons shining down on all that, not to mention an old well covered with wild ivy and night-blooming vines….