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Definition of Trumpet flower

1. Noun. Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat.

2. Noun. Woody flowering vine of southern United States; stems show a cross in transverse section.

3. Noun. Evergreen North American honeysuckle vine having coral-red or orange flowers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trumpet Flower

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trumpery trumpet trumpet-wood trumpet arch trumpet creeper trumpet flower (current term) trumpet honeysuckle trumpet section trumpet sign trumpet tree

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Literary usage of Trumpet flower

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The yellow elder, or upright trumpet-flower (Tecoma stans), is an evergreen shrub of erect growth introduced from Central America, and growing readily in ..."

2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"trumpet flower, a popular name especially for tecoma radican«, ... The trumpet flower, T. radicans, is a woody vino, climbing to a great height by abundant ..."

3. Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated: with by Henry Phillips (1823)
"The English name of trumpet flower has been given to this species of plants, ... The ash-leaved trumpet flower, Bignonia radicans, was brought from North ..."

4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"T. grandiflora is the showy trumpet- flower or trumpet-creeper from China, with drooping, salmon-yellow and scarlet flowers three inches broad, ..."

5. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"Olg<t (PRINCESS' trumpet flower).— A handsome perennial of shrubby habit, and hardy in all but cold districts. Its pretty cut leaves are borne upon long, ..."

6. Sylva Florifera: The Shrubbery Historically and Botanically Treated: with by Henry Phillips (1823)
"The English name of trumpet flower has been given to this species of plants, ... The ash-leaved trumpet flower, Bignonia radicans, was brought from North ..."

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