trumpet flower

Questions about trumpet flower

What does trumpet flower mean?

trumpet flower means "Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for trumpet flower?

Close synonyms include chalice vine, cupflower, Solandra guttata, cross vine, quartervine. 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 trumpet flower a common word?

trumpet flower is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.