trumpet flower (trumpetflou"er)

1. A plant of the genus Tecoma or of the allied genus Bignonia: so called with reference to the shape of the flowers. The best-known, perhaps, is T. rad i cans, the trumpet-creeper. T. grandiflora, the great trumpet-flower of China and Japan, is a le hardy and le high-climbing, but even more showy vine, having orange-scarlet bell-shaped flowers 3 inches broad, borne in clusters, each flower drooping. T. stans, the shrubby trumpet-flower, is a neat shrub 4 feet high with lemon-yellow flowers in large clusters, hardy only southward. Greenhouse species are T. Capensis of South Africa with curved orange flowers, and T. jasminoides of Australia with white flowers purple in the throat. Bignonia capreolata of the southern United States, the cro -vine or quarter-vine (see both words), or tendriled trumpet-flower, has large reddish-yellow flowers borne singly, and is moderately hardy at the north. B. venusta from Brazil is a gorgeous greenhouse climber with scarlet flowers. 2. One of various plants of other genera, as Solandra, Brunfelsia, Catalpa (West Indies), and Datura, especially D. suaveolens and other South American species, being trees with pendent blo oms. - Evergreen trumpet-flower, the yellow jasmine, Gelsemium sempervirens, once cla ed in the genus Bignonia. - Peach-colored trumpet-flower, So landra grandiflora. - Shrubby trumpet-flower. See def. 1.- Tendriled trumpet-flower. See def. 1.-Virgin i an trumpet-flower, a foreign name of the trumpet creeper.