yesterday-today-tomorrow

noun

An evergreen shrub, Brunfelsia australis.

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Meanings

nounyesterday-today-tomorrow (plural yesterday-today-tomorrows)

plural yesterday-today-tomorrows

  1. AustraliainformalAn evergreen shrub, Brunfelsia australis.

    Within a few months[,] little creepers were climbing the rose bushes, covering the yesterday-today-tomorrows, hanging down in stringy swathes from the cypress trees.

    2006, Helen Brain, Here Be Lions

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
rain tree

Origin

From the three shades of blue and violet on each plant, which can vary over the course of a few days.

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