cupflower
- noun
- US
:
flor de copa
- The cupflower bloomed early this year, filling the garden with its sweet fragrance.
Examples
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She planted a cupflower beside the trellis to let it climb and add color to her patio.
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Hummingbirds are attracted to the vibrant cupflower in our greenhouse.
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Look at that cupflower!
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What a lovely cupflower!
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Hummingbirds are attracted to the vibrant cupflower in our greenhouse.
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She planted a cupflower beside the trellis to let it climb and add color to her patio.
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The cupflower bloomed early this year, filling the garden with its sweet fragrance.
Synonyms
A Mexican evergreen climbing plant with large fragrant yellow funnel-shaped flowers marked with purple-brown lines
A Mexican climbing plant with large yellow funnel-shaped flowers that smell sweet
Compounds
A small bush from Chile with bluish-white tube-shaped flowers grown in gardens
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word cupflower comes from the common English parts cup and flower, where the cup part means 'cup'. So the name fits the Mexican climbing plant with large, funnel-shaped yellow blooms that look like cups and attract hummingbirds.
