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Morning glory   /mˈɔrnɪŋ glˈɔri/   Listen
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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



... by name, is greatly attached to Suhinie. As she is over two years old now, she has been promoted to the Taraha, and being an extremely wilful little person, she sometimes gets into trouble. One day I was called to remonstrate, and a little "morning glory" was required, and I put her in a corner to think about it. Another sinner had to be dealt with, and when I returned Sununda was nowhere to be found. I searched all over the Taraha and in the garden, and finally found her in the Premalia cuddled close to Suhinie. "She ...
— Lotus Buds • Amy Carmichael

... I'll tell about a fairy fireman who used to put out fires by squirting magical water on them from a morning glory flower," ...
— The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West • Laura Lee Hope

... literary world of 1742; and Murphy's Irish rhetoric is not too warm when he talks of this sunrise of Fielding's greatness "when his genius broke forth at once, with an effulgence superior to all the rays of light it had before emitted, like the sun in his morning glory." ...
— Henry Fielding: A Memoir • G. M. Godden

... the twilight into the morning glory of the open bay, and never a savage hoot disturbed the echoes. Some of the Alaculofs had dragged a couple of canoes from beneath the trees and raced off toward the village; others had followed a coast path known only to them, while, if there were watchers by the side of that ...
— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy

... the wild morning glory, form new plants not from their seed only, but from their ...
— The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. • Ellen Eddy Shaw



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