family Bignoniaceae

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family Bignoniaceae - trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order ScrophularialesBignoniaceaeasterid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubsorder Polemoniales, Polemoniales - Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophularialesbignoniad - any woody plant of the family BignoniaceaeBignonia, genus Bignonia - one species: cross vineCampsis radicans, trumpet creeper, trumpet vine - a North American woody vine having pinnate leaves and large red trumpet-shaped flowersgenus Catalpa - a dicotyledonous genus of plants belonging to the family Bignoniaceae; has large flowers (white or mottled) and long terete podsChilopsis, genus Chilopsis - one species: desert willowCrescentia, genus Crescentia - a genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches