Bot. [Named by Tournefort after the Abbé Bignon, librarian to Louis XIV.] A genus of plants, N.O. Bignoniaceæ, natives of hot climates, remarkable for the beauty of their trumpet-shaped flowers. Hence Bignoniaceous, Bignonial a.
[1700. Tournefort, Inst. Rei Herb., Bignoniam appellavi.]
1835. Penny Cycl., IV. 391/2. The … Bignonia, many species of which are common in our gardens.
1865. Parkman, Huguenots, iv. 52. The scarlet trumpets of the bignonia.
