kadupul

plural kadupuls · alternative Kadupul

1. attributiveEpiphyllum strictum or Epiphyllum selenicereus, a flower that blooms at night, believed to have an association with the nāga world.

   It's made from the kadupul flower. The kadupul blooms once a year under the cover of night and withers away before dawn, making it the rarest and most exquisite botanical on the planet.

   2015, Karri Thompson, Ascendancy, →ISBN

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   Ten sons, and all dear to the hearts of the people; and the little princesses Anula and Sivali who filled the women's quarters with their laughter and romped the pleasure parks with smiles as bright as the kadupul flowers which, the Nagas say, are the glorious lilies that bloom only in the serpent world.

   1997, Carl Muller, Children Of The Lion, →ISBN, page 373

   With kadupul blossoms adorning black hair and bright jeweled belts circling wide hips, their hot breasts cooled by sandal paste and fresh seapearls, they cast dark light from wide open eyes in every direction.

   2016, The Flight of Love, →ISBN

plural Kadupuls

1. alternativeAlternative form of kadupul.

   The Kadupul (sword flower) belongs to the world of Nagas and the parasatu to the world of gods.

   1990, Nandadeva Wijesekera, The Sinhalese, page 397

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   Kadupul flower (believed to originate in the Nagaland) blooms in the evening, completing the circle by midnight and begins the downward process culminating in the early hours of dawn.

   1996, Rohana Ulluwishewa, Hemanthi Ranasinghe, Anura Vidanapatirana, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development, →ISBN

   It holds two of my most precious possessions - my first handwritten love letter from a boy and dried Kadupul Blossoms.

   2017, F. F. John, The Proem