chalice vine

chalice vine
noun
Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat
Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush
Member Holonyms: ↑Solandra, ↑genus Solandra

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noun
: a climbing strong-branching shrub (Solandra guttata) of the family Solanaceae having elliptic-oblong leaves and large solitary terminal funnelform fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat

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