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MORNING GLORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does morning glory mean? 

MORNING GLORY (noun)
  The noun MORNING GLORY has 1 sense:

1. any of various twining vines having funnel-shaped flowers that close late in the dayplay

  Familiarity information: MORNING GLORY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MORNING GLORY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various twining vines having funnel-shaped flowers that close late in the day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("morning glory" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "morning glory"):

common morning glory; Ipomoea purpurea (pantropical annual climbing herb with funnel-shaped blue, purple, pink or white flowers)

common morning glory; Ipomoea tricolor (annual or perennial climbing herb of Central America having sky-blue flowers; most commonly cultivated morning glory)

cypress vine; Indian pink; Ipomoea quamoclit; Quamoclit pennata; star-glory (tropical American annual climber having red (sometimes white) flowers and finely dissected leaves; naturalized in United States and elsewhere)

belle de nuit; Ipomoea alba; moonflower (pantropical climber having white fragrant nocturnal flowers)

Ipomoea batatas; sweet potato; sweet potato vine (pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh)

Ipomoea fastigiata; Ipomoea panurata; man-of-the-earth; manroot; scammonyroot; wild potato vine; wild sweet potato vine (tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato)

Ipomoea coccinea; red morning-glory; star ipomoea (annual herb having scarlet flowers; the eastern United States)

Ipomoea leptophylla; man-of-the-earth (a morning glory with long roots of western United States)

Ipomoea orizabensis; scammony (tropical American morning glory)

beach morning glory; Ipomoea pes-caprae; railroad vine (a prostrate perennial of coastal sand dunes Florida to Texas)

Ipomoea nil; Japanese morning glory (annual Old World tropical climbing herb distinguished by wide color range and frilled or double flowers)

imperial Japanese morning glory; Ipomoea imperialis (hybrid from Ipomoea nil)

Holonyms ("morning glory" is a member of...):

genus Ipomoea; Ipomoea (morning glory)


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