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 wide garden porch, into which double doors opened from the summer-room where they were married, showed these, among the grass-walks of the shady, secluded place, through its own splendid vista of trumpet-hung bignonia vines.
From We Girls: a Home Story by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
Its favourite haunt is among the red and scentless flowers of the buck-eye, or the large trumpet-shaped blossoms of the bignonia.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid
In creepers, bignonia and lantana will hold their own under difficulties perhaps as well as any that can be found.
From Three Elephant Power and Other Stories by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson
Very different, was the table from the dainty arrangement in another verandah, where the figure of the tea-maker was set in a background of ipomea and bignonia.
From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny
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
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