bignonia
Americannoun
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any chiefly tropical American climbing shrub of the genus Bignonia, cultivated for its showy, trumpet-shaped flowers.
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any member of the plant family Bignoniaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and woody vines having opposite leaves, showy, bisexual, tubular flowers, and often large, gourdlike or capsular fruit with flat, winged seeds, and including the bignonia, catalpa, princess tree, and trumpet creeper.
noun
Etymology
Origin of bignonia
1690–1700; < New Latin, named after Abbé Bignon (librarian of Louis XIV of France); see -ia
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The hedge was intermingled with the tea-rose, white jasmine, fuchsia, pink cactus, and bignonia; all of which, from the hardihood of their growth, appeared indigenous.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852 by Robert Chambers
The Doctor found up there a new phlox and a pretty pink stone-crop, to add to our herbarium, while here as elsewhere the bignonia grows profusely in every crevice of the rock.
From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Reuben Gold Thwaites
It thrives mightily on these gravelled shores, and so do the bignonia vine, the poison ivy, and the Virginia creeper.
From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Reuben Gold Thwaites
The lacquer is drawn from its milky sap and mixed with the oil of the bignonia.
From In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston
The jasmine and bignonia spill Their balm around your windowsill; The sill where, when magnolia-white, In foliage mists, the moon hangs far, You lean with bright deep eyes of night And hearken my guitar.
From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Madison Julius Cawein
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