Definition of Pipe vine

1. Noun. Hardy deciduous vine having large leaves and flowers with the calyx tube curved like the bowl of a pipe.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Pipe Vine

pipe fitter
pipe fitting
pipe in
pipe major
pipe of peace
pipe organ
pipe organs
pipe rack
pipe smoker
pipe snake
pipe stem cirrhosis
pipe tong
pipe tongs
pipe union
pipe up
pipe vine (current term)
pipe vise
pipe wrench
pipe wrenches
pipeage
pipeages
pipebomb
pipebombs
pipeclay
pipeclayed
pipeclaying
pipeclays
pipecolic acid
pipecolinic acid
pipecuronium

Literary usage of Pipe vine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"Dutchman's Pipe; Pipe-vine (Aristolochia macrophylla) (A. Sipho of Gray) Flower—An ... In May, when the pipe-vine blooms, gauzy-winged small flies and gnats ..."

2. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1900)
"Dutchman's Pipe; Pipe-vine (Aristolochia macrophylla) (A. Sipho of Gray) ... In May, when the pipe-vine blooms, gauzy-winged small flies and gnats gladly ..."

3. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"... veiny tube, enlarged above the ovary, contracted at the throat; the flat border brownish-purple and obscurely thrce-lobed. Corolla.—Wanting. pipe vine. ..."

4. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"... veiny tube, enlarged above the ovary, contracted at the throat; the flat border brownish-purple and obscurely three-lobed. Corolla.—Wanting. pipe vine. ..."

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