trumpet flower

noun

any of various plants with pendent flowers shaped like a trumpet.
trumpet creeper.

trumpet honeysuckle.
the flower of any of these plants.

Origin of trumpet flower

An Americanism dating back to 1720–30

Words Nearby trumpet flower

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How to use trumpet flower in a sentence

Cornucopias of the trumpet-flower flared vividly, and here and there he caught a glimpse of a chinked log-cabin.
The Code of the Mountains | Charles Neville Buck
Later in the season come the brilliant trumpet-flower, the passion-flower, and innumerable others.
The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 79, May, 1864 | Various
A low portico, overgrown with woodbine and trumpet-flower, ran along the front.
The Story Of Kennett | Bayard Taylor
The highest and central piece was a deep trumpet-flower, whose mouth was cleft into eight petals.
The Lands of the Saracen | Bayard Taylor
The perfume of the great white trumpet-flower came to her in gusts of intensified, sickening, loathsome sweetness.
The Dop Doctor | Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

British Dictionary definitions for trumpet flower

trumpet flower

noun

any of various plants having trumpet-shaped flowers
the flower of any of these plants

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