Nero's crown
- noun
- Indian
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corona de Nerón
- She planted a Nero's crown alongside other tropical species to enhance the nighttime aroma of her backyard.
Examples
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The garden featured a rare Nero's crown in full bloom near the entrance.
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I saw a beautiful Nero's crown in the garden.
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Botanists are interested in the fragrant flowers of Nero's crown for their nocturnal blooming habit.
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The Nero's crown plant thrives in warm climates.
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Botanists are interested in the fragrant flowers of Nero's crown for their nocturnal blooming habit.
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She planted a Nero's crown alongside other tropical species to enhance the nighttime aroma of her backyard.
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The garden featured a rare Nero's crown in full bloom near the entrance.
Synonyms
A tropical shrub with glossy leaves and white flowers that smell sweet and open at night
A tropical shrub with shiny leaves and sweet-smelling night flowers with wavy petals
A tropical shrub with glossy leaves and fragrant white, crinkled flowers
A tropical shrub with glossy leaves and fragrant white flowers that open at night
A tropical shrub with shiny leaves and fragrant flowers that open at night
A tropical shrub with shiny leaves and sweet-smelling flowers that open at night
A tropical shrub with shiny leaves and white flowers that smell sweet
A tropical shrub with shiny leaves and scented night flowers from northern India to Thailand
Surface Forms
Morphology
Nero's + crown
This is a lexicalized plant name (an eponym + noun) whose specific botanical sense cannot be derived from the parts. Even if a learner knows 'crown' (and perhaps recognizes 'Nero'), the reference to a particular tropical shrub and its floral properties is arbitrary and requires prior lexical knowledge; such eponymous plant names are not compositionally predictable across languages.
Etymology
Nero's crown may come from the plant's round, wavy flowers that open at night and look like a small crown. People thought the showy, fragrant blooms were fit for the emperor Nero, so the name helps you remember it as a shrub with 'night-blooming' fragrant flowers.
