Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the genus Tecoma or of the allied genus Bignonia: so called with reference to the shape of the flowers.
- noun One of various plants of other genera, as Solandra, Brunfelsia, Catalpa (West Indies), and Datura, especially D. suaveolens and other South American species, being trees with pendent blossoms.
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Examples
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Very well, prepare for me roughed courses to type '0' stars lying inside this trumpet-flower locus of yours and not too far away.
The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967
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Very well, prepare for me roughed courses to type '0' stars lying inside this trumpet-flower locus of yours and not too far away.
Methuselah's Children Heinlein, Robert A. 1958
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Another curiosity is the _Celtis australis_ or _favaragio_, a tree that bears fruit of the size of a pea, with a stone kernel; a trumpet-flower of spotless white, belonging to the
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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"Don't let me startle you, please!" he said, as he stepped from the shadow of the trumpet-flower bush that had hitherto concealed him.
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An immense trumpet-flower overran this porch, whose antique massiveness harmonized with the building, for the straggling branches shot out in all directions, and its coarse blossoms, then in season, seemed to have drank up all the red paint as it vanished from the clapboards.
The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens
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There are clumps of scrubby oak completely covered with scarlet honeysuckle and trumpet-flower.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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He struck at it, ran after it and jumped on top of it but it always escaped him; for the puzzling thing was only the shadow cast by a bunch of trumpet-flower dangling high overhead.
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I thought of the blind boy who fancied the sound of the trumpet must be scarlet, as I trained up the brilliant scarlet trumpet-flower which my sister had planted long ago.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various
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Later in the season come the brilliant trumpet-flower, the passion-flower, and innumerable others.
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Swinging from its great arms, the trumpet-flower and the grapevine
Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson
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