beach morning glory
- noun
- /biːtʃ ˈmɔrnɪŋ ˈɡlɔri/
- US
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gloria de la mañana de playa
- The beach morning glory spreads across the sand dunes, providing ground cover with its vines.
Examples
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We spotted a beach morning glory in bloom during our walk along the Texas coast.
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Many beach morning glories thrive in sandy soils.
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Conservationists are working to protect the beach morning glory and other coastal plants.
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The beach morning glory blooms beautifully along the shore.
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Conservationists are working to protect the beach morning glory and other coastal plants.
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We spotted a beach morning glory in bloom during our walk along the Texas coast.
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The beach morning glory spreads across the sand dunes, providing ground cover with its vines.
Synonyms
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A climbing plant with trumpet-shaped flowers that open in the morning
A spreading plant with purple flowers that grows on sandy beaches
Surface Forms
Morphology
The structure is compositional: 'beach' modifies 'morning glory', so a learner can reasonably infer it names a type of morning glory that grows on the shore (habitat is transparent). However, 'morning glory' itself is a lexicalized plant name whose link to 'morning' + 'glory' is not obvious to all B1 learners, and the specific botanical details (prostrate perennial with trailing stems) cannot be derived from the parts alone.
Etymology
Beach morning glory gets its name from a simple picture: the plant grows on the beach, its flowers open in the morning, and the large, bright flowers looked like a 'glory' to the people who named it. So the name points to a low, spreading plant with showy flowers on sand dunes by the sea.