morning-glory family — noun morning glory; bindweed; sweet potato; plants having trumpet shaped flowers and a climbing or twining habit • Syn: ↑Convolvulaceae, ↑family Convolvulaceae • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family • Member Holonyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
morning glory family — the plant family Convulvulaceae, characterized by twining herbaceous vines, shrubs, and trees having alternate, simple, or compound leaves, funnel shaped, often showy flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including bindweed,… … Useful english dictionary
morning-glory family — Family Convolvulaceae, composed of about 1,400 species of flowering plants in 50 genera, widely cultivated for their colourful, funnel shaped flowers. Most are twining and erect herbaceous plants; a few are woody vines, trees, or shrubs. The… … Universalium
morning glory — ☆ morning glory n. any of a genus (Ipomoea) of plants of the morning glory family; esp., a twining annual vine ( I. purpurea), with heart shaped leaves and trumpet shaped flowers of lavender, blue, pink, or white … English World dictionary
Morning glory — This article is about the plant. For other uses of this name see Morning glory (disambiguation). Morning glory flower, Ipomoea nil … Wikipedia
morning glory — noun Date: 1814 any of various usually twining plants (genus Ipomoea of the family Convolvulaceae, the morning glory family) with showy trumpet shaped flowers; broadly an herb, shrub, or tree of the morning glory family … New Collegiate Dictionary
Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart — (born Diana Moore, formerly Morning Glory Zell) is a Neopagan poet, author, lecturer, and priestess. She is of Irish and Choctaw Indian ancestry. Contents 1 Early Life 2 Public Life 3 Priestess and Historian … Wikipedia
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morning-glory — ☆ morning glory [môr′niŋ glôr΄ē ] adj. designating a family (Convolvulaceae, order Solanales) of twining dicotyledonous vines and some erect shrubs and trees with flowers having five sepals and a funnel shaped corolla, including some bindweeds… … Universalium