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Flowery garden plant
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wisteria
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Word definitions for wisteria in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wistaria \Wis*ta"ri*a\, n. [NL.] [So named after Caspar Wistar, an American anatomist.] (Bot.) A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers. Now commonly spelled Wisteria . Note: The species commonest in ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Wisteria is an American retail catalog and store with an eclectic collection of home and garden accessories from around the world.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Even the magnificent wisteria covering the west front of the hotel is around 150 years old. ▪ I took stock of the bees in the wisteria and the cat stretching itself under the table. ▪ No wisteria cooing like fat blue pigeons ...
Usage examples of wisteria.
The Biltmore Grill boasted a large outdoor patio, complete with paddle fans and a trellised ceiling climbing with wisteria.
Thomas Nuttall, the man who named the wisteria after Caspar Wistar, came to America as an uneducated printer but discovered a passion for plants and walked halfway across the country and back again, collecting hundreds of growing things never seen before.
Native silverleaf and yellowwood, imported oaks and paper birch towered to give shade, and the high wall that surrounded the estate was a shape beneath mounds of rose and wisteria.
She fingers a piece the color of young dandelions and finds shards that look like flower petals: hyacinth and wisteria and lilac.
The houses on its outskirts were modern, white-walled and red-tiled like the farms and each with its trailing vines and bougainvillea, with wisteria and the blue of the jacaranda trees adding splashes of bright colour.
He saw no wisteria or camellia or coprosma though they had once been common.
Choked in between where they could get the light were the wild tupelo gum and the black gum, making an impassable barrier, and then to the right of where I'd come ashore a mass of water oak and ironwood and the wisteria which I've already described.
The morning-glory vines and the wisteria were dripping off the upstairs porches and they blocked out the moonlight and then there were the old black oaks that had been here when there was nothing but swamp.
The girl had been standing just a little behind Chalcus on the other side of the wisteria when Ilna made the final cut.
They were at the rear of the brownstone, hidden from the cops on perimeter patrol by the wisteria and honey locust branches.
Below him, dizzyingly precipitate, the old terrace gardens dropped away, a densely shadowed tangle of treetops, palms, cedars, chestnuts, judas trees, red beech, and eucalyptus, intertwined with climbing plants, lianas, wisterias.
Jak pointed toward a flowering wisteria that had curled itself around the trunk of a tall self-seeded sycamore.
The clematis, buddleia, and wisteria were overgrown and infested with tent caterpillars.
Not a single flower or decorative plant offset the starkness of the setting, except for wisteria vines and bougainvillea bushes, which had gone wild, and a tupelo tree near the front porch and several oaks in the back near a small bayou about a hundred yards from the house.
He touched the plants as he walked, moonvine and winter jasmine, the thorny rose and the winding wisteria.