Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An evergreen woody vine (Bignonia capreolata) native to the southeast United States, having showy reddish orange trumpet-shaped flowers and stems that show a cross shape when cut in cross-section.

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  • noun Any member of the genus Bignonia of flowering plants in the catalpa family.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin Bignonia, genus name, after Jean Paul Bignon, (1662–1743), French royal librarian.]

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From the genus name.

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Examples

  • I'm a get-a-cutting-from-the-neighbor kinda girl so, for me to go out and buy a big, new crossvine (bignonia capreolata) AND a big grassy thing called miscanthus adagio, well, you know I'm celebrating for sure.

    A Special Day at the Wabi-Sabi House The Curious Holts 2009

  • I'm a get-a-cutting-from-the-neighbor kinda girl so, for me to go out and buy a big, new crossvine (bignonia capreolata) AND a big grassy thing called miscanthus adagio, well, you know I'm celebrating for sure.

    Archive 2009-10-01 The Curious Holts 2009

  • Roses, bignonia and clemmies are on it along with the cobaea right now.

    Finally « Fairegarden 2009

  • The crossvine , bignonia ‘Tangerine Beauty’, was added the next year to the clothesline pole.

    GBDW Arbors and Pergolas-Killer-The Dilemma « Fairegarden 2008

  • The crossvine, bignonia ‘Tangerine Beauty’ entwined with Killer on the clothesline pole posed a thorny problem if it was to be saved.

    Killer- An Update « Fairegarden 2008

  • All that is left in the ground is the crossvine, bignonia ‘tangerine beauty’.

    Killer-The Final Chapter? « Fairegarden 2008

  • At the end of this wing, projecting to the lake, was a square terrace with a low, thick wall and a tiled roof, and a coral-scarlet bignonia dangling from the massive pillars.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • Over the gallery grow the roses; out near at hand a bignonia-vine lifts its yellow flare aloft and throws down a fluttering shower of bell-like blooms, and all the air is heavy with the scents of the South.

    Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas Various

  • Here were the tropical plumage of the palm, the dark green masses of the live-oak, the glistening verdure of wild orange-groves; and from out the shadowy thickets hung the wreaths of the jessamine and the scarlet trumpets of the bignonia.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

  • The bignonia family (_Bignoniaceæ_) is mainly tropical, but in our southern states is represented by the showy trumpet-creeper (_Tecoma_) (Fig.  121, _A_), the catalpa, and _Martynia_.

    Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

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