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trumpet flower
noun
- any of various plants with pendent flowers shaped like a trumpet.
- the flower of any of these plants.
trumpet flower
noun
- any of various plants having trumpet-shaped flowers
- the flower of any of these plants
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Word History and Origins
Origin of trumpet flower1
An Americanism dating back to 1720–30
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Example Sentences
Cornucopias of the trumpet-flower flared vividly, and here and there he caught a glimpse of a chinked log-cabin.
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Later in the season come the brilliant trumpet-flower, the passion-flower, and innumerable others.
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A low portico, overgrown with woodbine and trumpet-flower, ran along the front.
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The highest and central piece was a deep trumpet-flower, whose mouth was cleft into eight petals.
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The perfume of the great white trumpet-flower came to her in gusts of intensified, sickening, loathsome sweetness.
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