Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A deciduous woody vine (Aristolochia macrophylla) of the eastern United States, having greenish, brown-mottled flowers shaped like a curved pipe.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See Aristolochia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) Any climbing species of Aristolochia; esp., the Dutchman's pipe (Aristolochia sipho). See under Dutchman.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The Dutchman's pipe.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun hardy deciduous vine having large leaves and flowers with the calyx tube curved like the bowl of a pipe

Etymologies

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pipe +‎ vine

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Examples

  • Others provide fragrances that the pollinator gathers to use for its own reproductive advertisement, and a few fascinating species employ deceit and provide no reward (see the species account on pipevine for an example).

    Pollination ecology of desert plants 2009

  • We've seen a mass emergence of adult swallowtails on an East Bay hillside planted with pipevine.

    SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010

  • We're proud to announce that our California pipevine has finally bloomed, after years of biding its time.

    SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010

  • I think this on is a pipevine swallowtail out the back of my parents 'house.

    The Compact 2010

  • In the garden, California pipevine is undemanding.

    SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010

  • The extraordinary birdwing butterflies of the Indo-Malayan region are also pipevine specialists.

    SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010

  • The pipevine swallowtail has no mimics in California, though.

    SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010

  • At least two other butterflies and a moth have developed a protective resemblance to the pipevine swallowtail in that part of its range.

    SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010

  • Calico pipevine (A. elegans) has a burgundy-mottled frill around the mouth of the flower.

    SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010

  • The caterpillars of our own black-and-blue pipevine swallowtail (Battus philenor) eat nothing but pipevine leaves.

    SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010

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