trumpet flower
- noun
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flor trompeta
- In the garden, the vibrant trumpet flowers attract many butterflies.
Examples
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One day soon you will join me, and you will know a hummingbird no longer than my thumb to the joint of the hand, yet bold and fearless, sticking their long beaks into trumpet flowers and bells to suck out the sweet syrup.
Fiction book (1999) -
Look at these trumpet flowers.
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Are those, um, purple trumpet flowers?
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During the summer, the trumpet flowers bloom in stunning shades of orange and yellow.
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She admired the beautiful trumpet flowers climbing up the trellis in her backyard.
Synonyms
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4.3
A climbing plant that has sweet-smelling, tube-shaped flowers and is grown to decorate gardens
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5.2
A climbing plant with large bell-shaped orange or red flowers often grown in gardens
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A climbing evergreen plant with red or orange tube-shaped flowers that attract hummingbirds
A climbing plant with large red flowers shaped like a trumpet often grown in gardens
A woody climbing plant often grown in gardens for its bright trumpet-shaped orange flowers
An evergreen climbing plant with glossy leaves and fragrant white, trumpet-shaped flowers
A climbing plant that has shiny green leaves and clusters of white fragrant flowers shaped like trumpets
A climbing evergreen plant with shiny leaves and large yellow flowers used in gardens
A climbing evergreen vine with coral-red tubular flowers often grown in gardens
A vine that keeps green leaves all year, has red or orange trumpet flowers, and attracts hummingbirds
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
A climbing evergreen plant from Mexico with large yellow, fragrant funnel-shaped flowers marked with purple-brown ridges
A poisonous woody evergreen vine with sweet-smelling yellow flowers shaped like funnels in the southeastern United States
How Showy
Surface Forms
Morphology
trumpet + flower
The compound is transparently formed: a B1 learner who knows 'trumpet' and 'flower' can infer it refers to a flower shaped like a trumpet (i.e., trumpet-shaped blossom). This is a literal, compositional naming pattern (shape + object) that is cross-linguistically common, so the meaning should be immediately comprehensible from the constituents.
Etymology
Trumpet flower comes from the way the flower looks like a small trumpet, a long tube that opens into a wide bell. So people used this name for climbing plants with large, showy flowers, and the image helps you remember the plant's shape.