BIGNONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bignonia mean? 

• BIGNONIA (noun)
  The noun BIGNONIA has 1 sense:

1. one species: cross vine

  Familiarity information: BIGNONIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIGNONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One species: cross vine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Bignonia; genus Bignonia

Hypernyms ("Bignonia" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Bignonia"):

Bignonia capreolata; cross vine; quarter-vine; quartervine; trumpet flower (woody flowering vine of southern United States; stems show a cross in transverse section)

Holonyms ("Bignonia" is a member of...):

Bignoniaceae; family Bignoniaceae (trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales)