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trumpet vine

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

trumpet vine

(Plants) either of two bignoniaceous vines, Campsis radicans of the eastern US or C. grandiflora of E Asia, with clumps of trumpet-shaped flowers: grown as ornamentals. Also called: trumpet climber or trumpet flower

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trum′pet creep`er

1. a climbing vine, Campsis radicans, of the southern U.S., having large, red trumpet-shaped flowers.

2. a related Chinese vine, C. chinensis.

[1825–35, Amer.]

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Noun	1.	trumpet vine - a North American woody vine having pinnate leaves and large red trumpet-shaped flowers Campsis radicans, trumpet creeper Bignoniaceae, family Bignoniaceae - trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales
	2.	trumpet vine - evergreen North American honeysuckle vine having coral-red or orange flowers coral honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens, trumpet honeysuckle, trumpet flower genus Lonicera, Lonicera - woodbine honeysuckle - shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera

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