NOUN
- woody flowering vine of southern United States; stems show a cross in transverse section
- Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat
- evergreen North American honeysuckle vine having coral-red or orange flowers
How To Use trumpet flower In A Sentence
- The Angel's trumpet flower produces a narcotic scent used by South American shamans to induce visionary dreams.
- The Angel's trumpet flower produces a narcotic scent used by South American shamans to induce visionary dreams.
- Greater bindweed also climbs though the hedge. Its big white trumpet flowers open during the day then twist closed as night falls.
- The additional trees and shrubs in flower are the tamarisk, altheas, Venetian sumach, pomegranates, the beautiful passion-flower, the trumpet flower, and the virgin's bower or clematis, which is such a quick and handsome climber. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827
- The yellow trumpet flower is known to campesinos as retama, jamoncillos, jarilla or esperanza. Wildflower hunting in Durango
- So far, I have never seen any hummingbirds there, although I am told that they find trumpet flowers irresistible.