Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A deciduous woody vine (Aristolochia macrophylla) of the eastern United States, having greenish, brown-mottled flowers shaped like a curved pipe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
Aristolochia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Any climbing species of Aristolochia; esp., the Dutchman's pipe (
Aristolochia sipho ). See underDutchman .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
Dutchman's pipe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun hardy deciduous vine having large leaves and flowers with the calyx tube curved like the bowl of a pipe
Etymologies
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Examples
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Others provide fragrances that the pollinator gathers to use for its own reproductive advertisement, and a few fascinating species employ deceit and provide no reward (see the species account on pipevine for an example).
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We've seen a mass emergence of adult swallowtails on an East Bay hillside planted with pipevine.
SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010
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We're proud to announce that our California pipevine has finally bloomed, after years of biding its time.
SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010
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I think this on is a pipevine swallowtail out the back of my parents 'house.
The Compact 2010
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In the garden, California pipevine is undemanding.
SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010
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The extraordinary birdwing butterflies of the Indo-Malayan region are also pipevine specialists.
SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010
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The pipevine swallowtail has no mimics in California, though.
SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010
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At least two other butterflies and a moth have developed a protective resemblance to the pipevine swallowtail in that part of its range.
SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010
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Calico pipevine (A. elegans) has a burgundy-mottled frill around the mouth of the flower.
SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010
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The caterpillars of our own black-and-blue pipevine swallowtail (Battus philenor) eat nothing but pipevine leaves.
SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010
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