Definitions for morning-glory

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morning-glory morning glory

Morning-Glory is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 320 anagrams from letters in morning-glory (-ggilmnnoorry).

Definitions for morning-glory

noun

1. any of various plants, especially of the genera Ipomoea and Convolvulus, as I. purpurea, a twining plant having cordate leaves and funnel-shaped flowers of various colors, often opening only in the morning.
2. a racehorse that runs faster in morning workouts than in afternoon races.

Origin of morning-glory

An Americanism dating back to 1805-15

Examples for morning-glory

There is no doubt that the morning-glory will do all this and far more than is promised.

And then morning-glory vines will grow up around the window.

In the sixteenth century the morning-glory was as yet a rare plant with us.

Vines of honeysuckle and morning-glory had partly preëmpted the walls.

The morning-glory could also be blown up and popped, and the canterbury-bell.

A morning-glory vine hanging from a guy wire stirs, like a heavy curtain, in the cool morning breeze.

So the poor little morning-glory dropped back to the ground.

morning-glory Spring is like a gigantic morning-glory set in the earth.

The morning-glory heard this, and she longed to let the little Wren see her face.

Of course it is all in use, just as it is with whippoorwills and the morning-glory.