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Morning-glory   Listen
noun
Morning-glory, Morning glory  n.  (Bot.) A climbing plant (Ipomoea purpurea) having handsome, funnel-shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated, sometimes pale blue. See Dextrorsal.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Morning-glory" Quotes from Famous Books



... and those most easily procured make the best models. The carnation, the morning-glory, and the rarer blossoms of the hibiscus are well adapted to the work, also the daffodil and some ...
— Little Folks' Handy Book • Lina Beard

... garden may come to us fully charged with wonder and freshness, and drown with their music the noise of the gramaphone within. Those who do this, discover that they have lived in a stuffy world, whilst their inheritance was a world of morning-glory; where every tit-mouse is a celestial messenger, and every thrusting bud is charged with the full ...
— Practical Mysticism - A Little Book for Normal People • Evelyn Underhill

... see the geranium or rose so carefully nursed in the old cracked teapot in the poorest room, or the morning glory planted in a box and twined about the window? Do not these show that the human heart yearns for the beautiful in all ranks of life? You remember, Kate, how our washerwoman sat up a whole night, after a hard day's work, to make her first ...
— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe



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