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morning_glory

morning glory

English

Plant

Noun

morning glory ‎(plural morning glories)

(botany) Several members of the Convolvulaceae family; climbing plants with trumpet shaped flowers.
(informal) An involuntary erection present on waking.
- 2003, Ray Puxley, Britslang: An Uncensored A-Z of the People's Language, Including Rhyming Slang, Robson, published 2003, page 326:
  Morning Glory (****) Would appear to refer to one that stands tall and erect on waking.
- 2011, Michael Kantor, Now That You're Out, page 64:
  Like any man he wakes up with a morning glory. He precums.
A rolling cloud in the shape of a cylinder.

Synonyms

(plant): bindweed
(erection present on waking): morning wood

Translations

plant

Chinese:

Cantonese:

Mandarin: 牽牛花 (zh), 牵牛花 (zh) ‎(qiānniúhuā), 喇叭花 (zh) ‎(lǎbahuā), 牽牛 (zh), 牵牛 (zh) ‎(qiānniú)

Min Nan: a-sá-gá-o͘h
Esperanto: aŭrorofloro
Estonian: lehtertapp
Finnish: kiertokasvi (fi)
French: ipomée (fr), volubilis (fr), belle-de-jour (fr) f
German: die Trichterwinde f, Prunkwinde f
Hungarian: hajnalka (hu)
Japanese: 朝顔 (ja) ‎(asagao)

Korean: 나팔꽃 (ko) ‎(napalkkot), 견우화 (ko) ‎(gyeonuhwa) (牽牛花)
Maori: pōwhiwhi
Palauan: chasagao
Portuguese: convolvulácea f, glória matutina f, glória-da-manhã f
Romanian: volbură (ro) f, rochița-rândunelei f, rochița-rândunicii (ro) f
Russian: ипоме́я (ru) f ‎(ipoméja), у́треннее сия́ние n ‎(útrenneje sijánije)
Spanish: gloria de la mañana f, campanilla morada f
Swahili: ipomea
Tagalog: luwalhati sa umaga

erection present on waking — see morning wood

References

Nocturnal Penile Tumescence