yesterday-today-tomorrow

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English

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Etymology

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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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Noun

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

  1. (Australia, informal) An evergreen shrub, Brunfelsia australis.
    • 2006, Helen Brain, Here Be Lions:
      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.

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