[げっかびじん, gekkabijin] (n) Dutchman's pipe cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum); night-blooming cereus; queen of the night [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Cereus \Ce"re*us\, n. [L., a wax candle, fr. cera wax. So named
from the resemblance of one species to the columnar shape of
a wax candle.] (Bot.)
A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of
America, from California to Chili.
[1913 Webster]
Note: Although several species flower in the night, the name
{Night-blooming cereus} is specially applied to the
{Cereus grandiflorus}, which is cultivated for its
beautiful, shortlived flowers. The {Cereus giganteus},
whose columnar trunk is sometimes sixty feet in height,
is a striking feature of the scenery of New Mexico,
Texas, etc.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cereus
n 1: genus of much-branched treelike or shrubby cacti with
pronounced ribs and rounded needlelike spines and nocturnal
flowers usually white [syn: {Cereus}, {genus Cereus}]
From Latin-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-lat-eng]:
cereus
taper; wax candle
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