trumpet flower

noun

1. any of various plants with pendent flowers shaped like a trumpet.
2. trumpet creeper.
3. trumpet honeysuckle.
4. 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of trumpet flower¹

An Americanism dating back to 1720–30

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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