Definition of "night-flower" [night-flower]

• The night-jasmine, Nyctanthes Arbor-tristis. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He continued his walk, sombred by the thought that in the gloom of the trees was the next progression from the openness of the sky over those who strolled the night-flower hedge."
• "Under the stars and sweeping night winds, what a lamp-flower it must bloom; a strange, glittering night-flower, odour-yielding, insect-drawing, insect-infested rose of pleasure."
• "Sparks flurried skyward, bright and brief as the blossoms of the night-flower vine, which opened but one hour at eventide and wilted immediately thereafter."