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Definition of Morning glory
1. Noun. Any of various twining vines having funnel-shaped flowers that close late in the day.
Specialized synonyms: Common Morning Glory, Ipomoea Purpurea, Common Morning Glory, Ipomoea Tricolor, Cypress Vine, Indian Pink, Ipomoea Quamoclit, Quamoclit Pennata, Star-glory, Belle De Nuit, Ipomoea Alba, Moonflower, Ipomoea Batatas, Sweet Potato, Sweet Potato Vine, Ipomoea Fastigiata, Ipomoea Panurata, Man-of-the-earth, Manroot, Scammonyroot, Wild Potato Vine, Wild Sweet Potato Vine, Ipomoea Coccinea, Red Morning-glory, Star Ipomoea, Ipomoea Leptophylla, Man-of-the-earth, Ipomoea Orizabensis, Scammony, Beach Morning Glory, Ipomoea Pes-caprae, Railroad Vine, Ipomoea Nil, Japanese Morning Glory, Imperial Japanese Morning Glory, Ipomoea Imperialis
Generic synonyms: Vine
Definition of Morning glory
1. Noun. Several members of the ''Convolvulaceae'' family; climbing plants with trumpet shaped flowers. ¹
2. Noun. (informal) An erection present on waking. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Morning glory
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Literary usage of Morning glory
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1. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1909)
"He was so afraid that he would forget to cut it that he put a notice over his
door as he went into the dining-room, and it said: "Cut your morning-glory," ..."
2. Child Life: A Collection of Poems edited by John Greenleaf Whittier (1873)
"Too harsh thy dews, too gross thine air, Her spirit to sustain ; But up in groves
of Paradise Full surely we shall see Our morning-glory beautiful Twine ..."
3. Folio (1885)
"MORNING-GLORY. by no means the music which ... Ц Morning-glory ! morning-glory !
In thy bells I hear a story Hinging through the ..."
4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"MORNING-GLORY FAMILY. Herbs, some tropical species shrubs or trees, the stems
twining, ascending, trailing or erect, with alternate exstipulate entire ..."
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