Definitions for bignonias

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bignonias big·no·ni·a

Spelling: [big-noh-nee-uh]

IPA: /bɪgˈnoʊ ni ə/

Bignonias is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 267 anagrams from letters in bignonias (abgiinnos).

Definitions for bignonias

noun

1. any chiefly tropical American climbing shrub of the genus Bignonia, cultivated for its showy, trumpet-shaped flowers.
2. 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 bignonias

1690-1700; New Latin, named after Abbé Bignon (librarian of Louis XIV of France); see -ia

Examples for bignonias

It had beautiful violet-coloured flowers, an inch long, and Don Pablo saw that it was a species of bignonia.

In creepers, bignonia and lantana will hold their own under difficulties perhaps as well as any that can be found.

bignonia will give satisfaction south of Chicago, in most localities.

Chica, an orange-red colouring matter obtained from boiling the leaves of the bignonia chica, and used as a dye.

Some were white and starlike, but the greater number were the large scarlet cups of the trumpet-vine (bignonia).

One 265 of the most exquisite of all is the seed of bignonia.

It thrives mightily on these gravelled shores, and so do the bignonia vine, the poison ivy, and the Virginia creeper.

The lacquer is drawn from its milky sap and mixed with the oil of the bignonia.

Its favourite haunt is among the red and scentless flowers of the buck-eye, or the large trumpet-shaped blossoms of the bignonia.

bignonia crispa occurs, and a Scilloid plant out of flower is common.