trumpet creeper

noun

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.

Origin of trumpet creeper

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

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These rootlets are very strong, as you will find if you try to pull, as I did once, a trumpet-creeper out of a grape-vine.
Harper's Round Table, August 20, 1895 | Various
The coral-honeysuckle and a species of trumpet-creeper also grow here, and, in a little time, will be in full flower.
Palmetto-Leaves | Harriet Beecher Stowe
There was an old-fashioned trumpet-creeper outside the window.
A Christmas Accident and Other Stories | Annie Eliot Trumbull
In some parts of the country it is also called trumpet creeper.
Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 5 [December 1902] | Various
Fig. 93 shows the two-lobed stigma of the trumpet-creeper or tecoma before the flower is ready for pollination.
The Nursery Book | Liberty Hyde Bailey

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