trumpet creeper

noun

1. any climbing plant belonging to the genus Campsis, of the bignonia family, especially C. radicans, of the southern U.S., having elliptic leaves and large, red, trumpet-shaped flowers.

Word History and Origins

Origin of trumpet creeper¹

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

Example Sentences

You must cut the stem near the ground and then paint the wound with the applicable herbicide, and such candidates include porcelain berry, English ivy, trumpet creeper, and weedy honeysuckles, bittersweet and wisterias.

From Washington Post

Inside was a garden of fig trees and pomegranates, trumpet creepers and hibiscus, unkempt but well-watered.

From New York Times

The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.

From Project Gutenberg

And I pinted up at a gigantick trumpet creeper and convolvuli, festooned along the boughs of a giant geranium and hanging down its banner of bloom.

From Project Gutenberg

Everywhere about is the trumpet creeper, but not yet in bloom.

From Project Gutenberg