bignonia
any chiefly tropical American climbing shrub of the genus Bignonia, cultivated for its showy, trumpet-shaped flowers.
any member of the plant family Bignoniaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and woody vines having opposite leaves, showy, bisexual, tubular flowers, and often large, gourdlike or capsular fruit with flat, winged seeds, and including the bignonia, catalpa, princess tree, and trumpet creeper.
Origin of bignonia
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How to use bignonia in a sentence
Everywhere there is a veritable maze of creeping plants, of bromelias, bignonias, passifloras.
Up the Orinoco and down the Magdalena | H. J. MozansBougainvilleas, passion-flowers, alamanders and bignonias drape verandas and cover walls.
The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines | Isabel Anderson
British Dictionary definitions for bignonia
/ (bɪɡˈnəʊnɪə) /
any tropical American bignoniaceous climbing shrub of the genus Bignonia (or Doxantha), cultivated for their trumpet-shaped yellow or reddish flowers: See also cross vine
Origin of bignonia
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