trumpet flower
Americannoun
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any of various plants with pendent flowers shaped like a trumpet.
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the flower of any of these plants.
noun
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any of various plants having trumpet-shaped flowers
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the flower of any of these plants
Etymology
Origin of trumpet flower
An Americanism dating back to 1720–30
Example Sentences
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We chatted and fed some house flies to a large praying mantis perched on the branch of a trumpet flower shrub.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
Oh, what a beautiful butterfly!—there, on that trumpet flower!
From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary
The eagle dominates the hawk; the hawk, the falcon; the falcon, the raven; and so on down to the place where the hummingbird drives the moth from his particular trumpet flower.
From Her Father's Daughter by Stratton-Porter, Gene
The additional trees and shrubs in flower are the tamarisk, altheas, Venetian sumach, pomegranates, the beautiful passion-flower, the trumpet flower, and the virgin's bower or clematis, which is such a quick and handsome climber.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827 by Various
The beautiful red trumpet flower partly covered the sides of the houses, about which Italian poplars and Babylonian willows were frequently planted; the latter are often very high and spreading.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp
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