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evening primrose en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. Any of various flowering plants of the genus Oenothera or Camissonia, in the family Onagraceae,
2. Any of various flowering plants of the genus Oenothera or Camissonia, in the family Onagraceae, ▸ especially the common evening primrose, Oenothera biennis.
3. 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 EVENING PRIMROSES”, in Evolution, volume 65, number 11:
   • The Myrtaceae is a dicot family in the class Rosidae which also includes the rose and mallow families and falls into the order Myrtales along with the families Lathraceae, Punicaceae (pomegranates) and Onagraceae (evening primroses) 2012, SK Mitra, TKS Irenaeus, MR Gurung…, “Taxonomy and importance of Myrtaceae”, in Symposium on Guava, actahort.org:
   • 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, volume 25, number 8:

Forms

Deriveds

Missouri evening primrose · evening primrose oil · bigfruit evening primrose · common evening primrose

Translations (30)

ca enotera (flowering plant of the genus Oenothera) · cmn 柳葉菜科 /柳叶菜科 (plant of the family Onagraceae) · cmn 月見草 /月见草 (flowering plant of the genus Oenothera) · ro iarba-asinului (Oenothera biennis) · sv nattljus (flowering plant of the genus Oenothera) · ca bella de nit (Oenothera biennis) · es onagra (flowering plant of the genus Oenothera) · pl wiesiołek dwuletni (Oenothera biennis) · pt onagra (Oenothera biennis) · sv nattljus (Oenothera biennis) · nl teunisbloem (flowering plant of the genus Oenothera) · ro luminiță (flowering plant of the genus Oenothera) · pl wiesiołek (flowering plant of the genus Oenothera) · fi horsmakasvi (plant of the family Onagraceae) · cmn 月見草 /月见草 (Oenothera biennis) · nl middelste teunisbloem (Oenothera biennis) · pt enotera (flowering plant of the genus Oenothera) · ko 달맞이꽃 (flowering plant of the genus Oenothera) · es hierba del asno (Oenothera biennis) · ja 月見草 (flowering plant of the genus Oenothera) · nv tłʼééʼ yiigáhii (flowering plant of the genus Oenothera) · fi helokki (flowering plant of the genus Oenothera) · fi iltahelokki (Oenothera biennis) · ro luminiță-de-seară (Oenothera biennis) · tr eşek otu (flowering plant of the genus Oenothera) · ca onagra (flowering plant of the genus Oenothera) · ro luminița-nopții (Oenothera biennis) · de Nachtkerze (flowering plant of the genus Oenothera) · tr eşek otu (Oenothera biennis) · el νυχτολούλουδο (flowering plant of the genus Oenothera)