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MORNING GLORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various twining vines having funnel-shaped flowers that close late in the day
Classified under:
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)
