Meaning

10 senses
  1. Any of several species of flowering plants with trumpet-like flowers

    Incarvillea spp., native to central and eastern Asia (Chinese trumpet flower)

  2. Collomia spp.

  3. Datura meteloides, a perennial herb of the southwestern U.S. (desert trumpet flower)

  4. Gelsemium sempervirens, native to North America (evening trumpetflower)

  5. Oroxylum indicum, native to India (Indian trumpetflower)

  6. Beaumontia grandiflora (Nepal trumpet flower, Easter lily vine)

  7. Salpiglossis sinuata, native to Chile (velvet trumpet flower)

  8. Dolichandrone atrovirens, native to India (wavy trumpet flower)

  9. Tecoma stans (yellow bells, yellow trumpet flower, yellow elder)

  10. Stereospermum chelonoides (syn. Bignonia suaveolens); fragrant padritree

More definitions
  • woody flowering vine of southern United States; stems show a cross in transverse section
  • Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat
  • evergreen North American honeysuckle vine having coral-red or orange flowers

Forms

plural: trumpet flowers
Singulartrumpet flower
Pluraltrumpet flowers

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Synonyms

11 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • woody flowering vine of southern United States; stems show a cross in transverse section:cross vinequartervinequarter-vineBignonia capreolata
  • Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat:chalice vinecupflowerSolandra guttata
  • evergreen North American honeysuckle vine having coral-red or orange flowers:trumpet honeysucklecoral honeysuckletrumpet vineLonicera sempervirens

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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