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trumpet flower

noun

  1. any of various plants with pendent flowers shaped like a trumpet.
  2. the flower of any of these plants.


trumpet flower

noun

  1. any of various plants having trumpet-shaped flowers
  2. the flower of any of these plants
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

Later in the season come the brilliant trumpet-flower, the passion-flower, and innumerable others.

A low portico, overgrown with woodbine and trumpet-flower, ran along the front.

The highest and central piece was a deep trumpet-flower, whose mouth was cleft into eight petals.

The perfume of the great white trumpet-flower came to her in gusts of intensified, sickening, loathsome sweetness.

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