cross vine

1. 1.

   woody flowering vine of southern United States; stems show a cross in transverse section

   Synonymstrumpet flowerquartervinequarter-vineBignonia capreolata

   Broadervine

   Part ofBignonia

Questions about cross vine

What does cross vine mean?

cross vine means "woody flowering vine of southern United States; stems show a cross in transverse section".

What is another word for cross vine?

Close synonyms include trumpet flower, quartervine, quarter-vine, Bignonia capreolata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cross vine a common word?

cross vine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.