mimulus

British  

/ ˈmɪmjʊləs /

noun

1. See monkey flower

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Etymology

Origin of mimulus

New Latin, from Greek mimō ape (from the shape of the corolla)

Example Sentences

Of late years the mimulus has gilded the bank of one of the ditches. 

From John Keble's Parishes by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

For the wood delights to grow abroad at all points, and one might search a summer long without finding two leaves of the oak alike, or any two trumpets of the spangled mimulus.

From The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children by Austin, Mary Hunter

But the dreamer took his book in his hand, and, musing, he wandered by the stream’s side, where grew the yellow mimulus.

From Japanese Fairy Tales by James, Grace

Here, too, a new mimulus pours floods of yellow light, and high above them all the yucca rears its great plume of purple and white.

From Our Italy by Warner, Charles Dudley

Under foot were white violets and wee, monkey-faced mimulus, with occasionally a rare scarlet monkey-flower.

From Unexplored! by Chaffee, Allen