morning glory vs moonflower

moonflower vs morning glory

morning glory and moonflower both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
morning glory	Yes	No	No	No
moonflower	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, moonflower is a hyponym of morning glory; that is, moonflower is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than morning glory:

morning glory: any of various twining vines having funnel-shaped flowers that close late in the day
moonflower: pantropical climber having white fragrant nocturnal flowers

Other hyponyms of morning glory include common morning glory, Ipomoea purpurea, common morning glory, Ipomoea tricolor, cypress vine, Indian pink, Ipomoea quamoclit, Quamoclit pennata, star-glory, belle de nuit, Ipomoea alba, Ipomoea batatas, sweet potato, sweet potato vine, Ipomoea fastigiata, Ipomoea panurata, man-of-the-earth, manroot, scammonyroot, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine, Ipomoea coccinea, red morning-glory, star ipomoea, Ipomoea leptophylla, man-of-the-earth, Ipomoea orizabensis, scammony, beach morning glory, Ipomoea pes-caprae, railroad vine, Ipomoea nil, Japanese morning glory, imperial Japanese morning glory, Ipomoea imperialis.

morning glory (noun)	moonflower (noun)
any of various twining vines having funnel-shaped flowers that close late in the day	pantropical climber having white fragrant nocturnal flowers

Difference between morning glory and moonflower

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