Crossword clues for wisteria
wisteria
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 cultivation is the Wistaria Sinensis from Eastern Asia. Wistaria fruticosa grows wild in the southern parts of the United States.
Wisteria \Wis*te"ri*a\, n. Same as Wistaria.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
genus of woody vines, 1819, formed by Thomas Nuttall, English botanist, in recognition of American anatomist Caspar Wistar (1761-1818) of Philadelphia + abstract noun ending -ia. The -e- apparently is a misprint. The Wistar Institute was founded in 1892 by his great-nephew and named for him.
Wiktionary
n. Any of several woody climbing vines, of the genus ''Wisteria'', native to the East Asian countries of China, Korea, and Japan and the eastern United States.
WordNet
n. any flowering vine of the genus Wisteria [syn: wistaria]
Wikipedia
Wisteria (also spelled Wistaria or Wysteria) is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, that includes ten species of woody climbing bines native to the Eastern United States and to China, Korea, and Japan. Some species are popular ornamental plants. An aquatic flowering plant with the common name wisteria or 'water wisteria' is in fact Hygrophila difformis, in the family Acanthaceae.
Wisteria is a genus of flowering plants.
Wisteria may also refer to:
- Wisteria (color)
- MS Wisteria, a ferry
- Wisteria Lane, the setting of the TV series Desperate Housewives
- Water wisteria, an aquatic plant
- Wisteria "Wisty" Allgood, a character in the book Witch and Wizard
- Wisteria (Catalog)
- Wisteria, a 1985 jazz album by Jimmy Raney
Wisteria is an American retail catalog and store with an eclectic collection of home and garden accessories from around the world.
Wisteria is a jazz album by pianist Steve Kuhn and his trio, released on ECM Records in 2012 as ECM 2257.
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.