TRUMPET CREEPER Definition & Meaning

trumpet creeper

noun

any climbing plant belonging to the genus Campsis, of the bignonia family, especially C. radicans, of the southern U.S., having elliptic leaves and large, red, trumpet-shaped flowers.

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Origin of trumpet creeper¹

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

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You must cut the stem near the ground and then paint the wound with the applicable herbicide, and such candidates include porcelain berry, English ivy, trumpet creeper, and weedy honeysuckles, bittersweet and wisterias.

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Inside was a garden of fig trees and pomegranates, trumpet creepers and hibiscus, unkempt but well-watered.

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The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.

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And I pinted up at a gigantick trumpet creeper and convolvuli, festooned along the boughs of a giant geranium and hanging down its banner of bloom.

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Everywhere about is the trumpet creeper, but not yet in bloom.

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