Meaning & use
Dutchman's pipe
A climbing vine with curved, pipe-shaped flowers, often grown to cover walls or trellises.
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The gardener trained the Dutchman's pipe to climb along the wooden trellis by the porch.
Dutchman's pipe flowers attract pipevine swallowtail butterflies that lay their eggs on the leaves.
A note on using this word
Dutchman's pipe gets its name from flowers shaped like an old curved smoking pipe.
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