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cypress vine

noun

  1. a tropical American vine, Ipomoea quamoclit (or Quamoclit pennata ), of the morning glory family, having finely divided leaves and tubular scarlet flowers.


cypress vine

noun

  1. a tropical American convolvulaceous climbing plant, Ipomoea pennata, having finely divided compound leaves and scarlet or white tubular flowers
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cypress vine1

An Americanism dating back to 1810–20
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Example Sentences

And then he found the pink- and the white-flowered versions of cypress vine, which he simply had to try.

Her small yard is a mass of color where marigolds, zinnias, verbena and cockscomb run riot, and over the roughly-made arch at the gate trailed cypress vine in full bloom.

No; what I want is a bed of portulaca, and some cypress vines running up strings to the top of a pole.

There were other blossoms mingling with these, for still other parasites—smaller ones—were twined around it; and we could distinguish the beautiful star-like flowers of the cypress vine.

Every morning it is a new excitement to see long festoons of our green curtains, variegated with trumpet-shaped morning-glories, looking towards the sun, and mingled with them the scarlet star of the cypress vine.

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