单词 | bignonia |
释义 | bignonia[ big-noh-nee-uh ] / bɪgˈnoʊ ni ə / nounany chiefly tropical American climbing shrub of the genus Bignonia, cultivated for its showy, trumpet-shaped flowers. any member of the plant family Bignoniaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and woody vines having opposite leaves, showy, bisexual, tubular flowers, and often large, gourdlike or capsular fruit with flat, winged seeds, and including the bignonia, catalpa, princess tree, and trumpet creeper. Origin of bignonia1690–1700; <New Latin, named after Abbé Bignon (librarian of Louis XIV of France); see -ia Words nearby bignoniaBig Muddy, Big Muddy River, big name, bigness, big noise, bignonia, bignoniaceous, big-note, big of one, big on, big one Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for bignoniaBritish Dictionary definitions for bignoniabignonia / (bɪɡˈnəʊnɪə) / nounany tropical American bignoniaceous climbing shrub of the genus Bignonia (or Doxantha), cultivated for their trumpet-shaped yellow or reddish flowersSee also cross vine Word Origin for bignoniaC19: from New Latin, named after the Abbé Jean-Paul Bignon (1662–1743) Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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