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bɪgˈnoʊ ni əbignon·i·a

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Bignonia, genus Bignonianoun

    one species: cross vine

Wiktionary

  1. bignonianoun

    Any member of the genus Bignonia of flowering plants in the catalpa family.

  2. Etymology: From the genus name.

Wikipedia

  1. Bignonia

    Bignonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae. Its genus and family were named after Jean-Paul Bignon by his protégé Joseph Pitton de Tournefort in 1694, and the genus was established as part of modern botanical nomenclature in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus. Species have been recorded from the southern USA, Central to most of South America.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bignonianoun

    a large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus

Wikidata

  1. Bignonia

    Bignonia is a genus of flowering plants in the catalpa family, Bignoniaceae. Its genus and family were named after Jean-Paul Bignon by his protégé Joseph Pitton de Tournefort in 1694.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Bignonia

    big-nō′ni-a, n. a genus of tropical plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, named from the Abbé Bignon, Louis XIV.'s librarian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Bignonia in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Bignonia in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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