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‖ bignonia Bot.|bɪgˈnəʊnɪə|
[Named by Tournefort after the Abbé Bignon, librarian to Louis XIV.]
A genus of plants, family Bignoniaceæ, natives of hot climates, remarkable for the beauty of their trumpet-shaped flowers. Hence bignoniˈaceous, bigˈnonial a.
[1700Tournefort Inst. Rei Herb., Bignoniam appellavi.] 1785H. Marshall Amer. Grove 22 Ever-green Bignonia, or Yellow Jasmine. 1802M. Cutler in W. P. & J. P. Cutler Life & Corresp. (1888) II. 104 Magnolias, bignonias, liriodendrons. 1826T. Flint F. Berrian I. v. 155 Beautiful stone cottages, clustered with the bignonia in full flower. 1835Penny Cycl. IV. 391/2 The..Bignonia, many species of which are common in our gardens. 1865Parkman Huguenots iv. 52 The scarlet trumpets of the bignonia. |