wisteria
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7.4
- noun
- /wɪˈstɪəriə/
:
glicinia
- The garden was filled with beautiful wisteria that hung down in graceful clusters.
- wisteria vine
- wisteria blooms
- purple wisteria
Examples
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The scent of roses, wisteria vines, and sea grass reached their noses; the perfumes of Christina's world.
Fiction book (1990) -
The wisteria on the pergola probably needed to be pruned or fed or whatever you do with such things.
Fiction book (1999) -
No one had actually sent him to cut down the wisteria across from her house.
Fiction book (2002) -
This one is called Wisteria and it's like a bright purple.
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It's the house with the wisteria porch and yellow colonnade, a few minutes down the lane.
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Antique roses and wisteria crawl up the old stone walls.
Fiction book (2000) -
Purple wisteria, vines covering trees fifty feet high, draped to the ground.
Fiction book (2001) -
Outside, the wind was blowing through the trees in the yard, flattening the purple clumps of wisteria that grew against the barn wall.
Fiction book (1991) -
Sun poured through the wide windows, and the breeze sent the wisteria branches tapping at the panes.
Fiction book (1990) -
Her house was stucco and brick, somewhat shabbily overgrown with wisteria and English ivy.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
A climbing plant with hanging purple or white flowers and a sweet smell
A climbing plant with long hanging clusters of pink and purple flowers often grown on walls and trellises
A climbing plant from East Asia with hanging groups of purple or pink flowers
A climbing plant from China with long hanging clusters of purple, sweet-smelling flowers
A climbing vine with deep purple, fragrant hanging flowers
A climbing plant with long white hanging flowers that comes from China
A climbing plant from China with groups of white fragrant flowers and soft hairy leaves
A climbing plant from the eastern United States with pale purple hanging flower clusters
A climbing plant with pale purple flowers that grows in the eastern United States
Compounds
A climbing plant with pale purple flowers that grows in the eastern United States
A tree from warm places with loose clusters of red or pink hanging flowers
A climbing plant from China with groups of white fragrant flowers and soft hairy leaves
- Specialized
A climbing plant with long white hanging flowers that comes from China
- Specialized
A climbing plant from China with long hanging clusters of purple, sweet-smelling flowers
- Specialized
A climbing plant with long hanging clusters of pink and purple flowers often grown on walls and trellises
How Flowering
Surface Forms
Etymology
Wisteria comes from the name of an American doctor, Wistar, whose name an early plant expert used for this climbing flower. So, when you picture a wisteria with its hanging purple clusters, remember the name is simply honoring the man Wistar.