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trumpet flower

noun

  1. any of various plants with pendent flowers shaped like a trumpet.
  2. the flower of any of these plants.


trumpet flower

noun

  1. any of various plants having trumpet-shaped flowers
  2. the flower of any of these plants
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of trumpet flower1

An Americanism dating back to 1720–30
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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.

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On the 2.8-acre expanse of grassy fields and gardens of calla lilies and trumpet flowers, men played chess at picnic tables and shot hoops on a basketball court.

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For example, it took 31,565 Lego bricks to create a humdinger of a hummingbird feeding from a trumpet flower.

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Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the trumpet flower is an example.

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The slight declivity upon the brow of which they were standing, had been cleared, and was now planted with tobacco, whose broad green leaves, and delicate trumpet flowers, attracted the attention of numerous gorgeous insects.

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