bignonia

American

[big-noh-nee-uh] / bɪgˈnoʊ ni ə /

noun

any chiefly tropical American climbing shrub of the genus Bignonia, cultivated for its showy, trumpet-shaped flowers.
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.

bignonia British

/ bɪɡˈnəʊnɪə /

noun

any tropical American bignoniaceous climbing shrub of the genus Bignonia (or Doxantha ), cultivated for their trumpet-shaped yellow or reddish flowers See also cross vine

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Etymology

Origin of bignonia

1690–1700; < New Latin, named after Abbé Bignon (librarian of Louis XIV of France); see -ia

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Flowers above an inch long, remarkable for the broad divisions of the corolla, and the general form much that of a BIGNONIA.

From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Mitchell, Thomas

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