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Definition of Trumpet vine

1. Noun. A North American woody vine having pinnate leaves and large red trumpet-shaped flowers.

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trumpet Vine

trump up trumped trumped-up trumped-up(a) trumperies trumpery trumpet trumpet-wood trumpet arch trumpet creeper

trumpet flower trumpet honeysuckle trumpet section trumpet sign trumpet tree trumpet vine (current term) trumpet weed trumpeted trumpeter trumpeter-swan

trumpeter pigeon trumpeter swan trumpeter swans trumpeters trumpetfish trumpetfishes trumpeting trumpetings trumpetless trumpetlike

Literary usage of Trumpet vine

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

1. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"1777 I THE TRUMPET-VINE ARBOR The throats of the little red trumpet-flowers are wide open, And the clangor of brass beats against the hot sunlight. ..."

2. Our Animal Friends: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1893)
"... an old stone house, gray, with brown trimmings, a huge trumpet vine heavy with red blossoms, clambering to its very When the children played, ..."

3. School and Home Gardens by William Herman Dietrich Meier (1913)
"THE trumpet vine The trumpet vine (Bignonia radicans) has trumpet- shaped flowers of a deep orange-red color, that are formed in large clusters and make a ..."

4. Biltmore Nursery, Biltmore, N.C. (1907)
"CHINESE trumpet vine. A high-climbing vine with numerous stout and spreading branches. Native of China. Leaves compound, consisting of 7 to 9 ovate bright ..."

5. The Flower Garden: A Handbook of Practical Garden Lore by Ida Dandridge Bennett (1903)
"Grown as a shrub on the lawn the trumpet vine is very fine and should be trained to a stake and grown ..."

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