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morning-glory

morning-glory is the alternative form of morning glory.

Meaning of morning glory

Noun

morning glory (countable and uncountable, plural morning glories)

  1. Any of several members of the family Convolvulaceae; climbing plants with trumpet shaped flowers.
    Synonyms:
    bindweed
  2. (UK, informal) An involuntary erection present upon waking.
    • What's the story morning glory? Well? / You need a little time to wake up wake up1995, “Morning Glory”, performed by Oasis
    Synonyms:
    morning wood
  3. A morning bout of love-making.
  4. A rolling cloud in the shape of a cylinder; a roll cloud.

Forms of morning-glory

pluralmorning-glories

Phrases with morning-glory

Questions about morning-glory

What is morning-glory the alternative form of?
Morning-glory is the alternative form of morning glory.

Words near morning-glory in the dictionary

  1. morning-afters
  2. morning-dressed
  3. morning-gift
  4. morning-gifts
  5. morning-glories
  6. morning-glory
  7. morning-land
  8. morning-noon-and-night
  9. morning-room
  10. morning-rooms
  11. morning-suited

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Adapted from Wiktionary: morning-glory (page history and authors); morning glory (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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