sleep-at-noon

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English

Noun

sleep-at-noon (uncountable)

  1. A plant (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.) which closes its flowers at midday; Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sleep-at-noon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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