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bignonia
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bignonia \Big*no"ni*a\, prop. n. [Named from the Abb['e] Bignon.]
(Bot.) A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. Bignonia capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper (also called the trumpet vine), with large red tubular flowers, was formerly considered to be of this genus, but is now classified as Campsis radicans.
any member of the family Bignoniaceae, including the bignonia[1], catalpa, trumpet creeper, and princess tree. They typically have brightly colored tubular (trumpet-shaped) flowers.
Wiktionary
n. Any member of the genus ''Bignonia'' of flowering plants in the catalpa family.
Wikipedia
Bignonia is a genus of flowering plants in the catalpa family, Bignoniaceae. Its genus and family were named after Jean-Paul Bignon by his protégé Joseph Pitton de Tournefort in 1694.
Bignonia may refer to:
- Bignonia a genus of flowering plants in the catalpa family, Bignoniaceae
- Bignonia (grape), an Italian wine grape
- 8850 Bignonia, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1990
- USS Bignonia (1863), a steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War
Usage examples of "bignonia".
The whole front of it was covered by a large scarlet bignonia and a native multiflora rose, which, entwisting and interlacing, left scarce a vestige of the rough logs to be seen.
The beautiful Moreton Bay bignonia, with its clusters of pink blossom, and the passion--flower completely covered the roof and verandah, and was trained into arches, though here and there a long wreath escaped from its confinement, and waved to and fro in the evening breeze, which had now set in.
In creepers, bignonia and lantana will hold their own under difficulties perhaps as well as any that can be found.
The day Hillela returned from the holiday a woman was sitting with Pauline under the dangling swags of orange bignonia creeper that made private one end of the verandah.
State House which she has had made private even from the peacocks and guinea-fowl by a surrounding trellis covered with the orange-flowered bignonia that grows at all latitudes in Africa.
Bignonia capreolata: apheliotropic movement of a tendril, traced on a horizontal glass from 6.
The whole front of it was covered by a large scarlet bignonia and a native multiflora rose, which, entwisting and interlacing, left scarce a vestige of the rough logs to be seen.