| morning glory | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. morning glory | any of various twining vines having funnel-shaped flowers that close late in the day. |
| ~ genus ipomoea, ipomoea | morning glory. |
| ~ ipomoea purpurea, common morning glory | pantropical annual climbing herb with funnel-shaped blue, purple, pink or white flowers. |
| ~ common morning glory, ipomoea tricolor | annual or perennial climbing herb of Central America having sky-blue flowers; most commonly cultivated morning glory. |
| ~ cypress vine, indian pink, ipomoea quamoclit, quamoclit pennata, star-glory | tropical American annual climber having red (sometimes white) flowers and finely dissected leaves; naturalized in United States and elsewhere. |
| ~ belle de nuit, ipomoea alba, moonflower | pantropical climber having white fragrant nocturnal flowers. |
| ~ ipomoea batatas, sweet potato, sweet potato vine | pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh. |
| ~ ipomoea fastigiata, ipomoea panurata, manroot, scammonyroot, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine, man-of-the-earth | tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato. |
| ~ ipomoea coccinea, red morning-glory, star ipomoea | annual herb having scarlet flowers; the eastern United States. |
| ~ ipomoea leptophylla, man-of-the-earth | a morning glory with long roots of western United States. |
| ~ ipomoea orizabensis, scammony | tropical American morning glory. |
| ~ beach morning glory, ipomoea pes-caprae, railroad vine | a prostrate perennial of coastal sand dunes Florida to Texas. |
| ~ ipomoea nil, japanese morning glory | annual Old World tropical climbing herb distinguished by wide color range and frilled or double flowers. |
| ~ imperial japanese morning glory, ipomoea imperialis | hybrid from Ipomoea nil. |
| ~ vine | a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface. |
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