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
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
The crimson flower of the trumpet flower trailed everywhere, and a mighty vista was spread from foreground to horizon where the ashy purple of the last ridge merged with the sky.
From A Pagan of the Hills by Buck, Charles Neville
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
Oh, what a beautiful butterfly!—there, on that trumpet flower!
From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary
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