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Answer for the clue "Framework for climbing plants ", 7 letters:
pergola

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A good plant for shade, it makes an attractive edging to the border under our pergola . ▪ Imagine the effect of a pergola , ablaze with laburnum. ▪ The patio gets a southern exposure, and a pergola shades about 75 percent of ...

Usage examples of pergola.

They had it all to themselves, and it was filled with things that Bernard liked--inequalities of level, with mossy steps connecting them, rose-trees trained upon old brick walls, horizontal trellises arranged like Italian pergolas, and here and there a towering poplar, looking as if it had survived from some more primitive stage of culture, with its stiff boughs motionless and its leaves forever trembling.

It is full moon here, and last night I was out on the pergola for hours, staring away at the shining blankness that hides so much.

She had a lily-pond and a rosery and many pergolas, and what promised in twenty years to be a fine yew-walk.

The architecture of the station is oddly informal, gloomy but unserious, and mostly resembles a pergola, cottage or summer house although this is a climate of harsh winters.

Throughout the years, it remained a dazzling white fortress of taste and calm, with an elegant double bowfront, striped emerald lawns, pergolas and a maze, and garish red and blue flags fluttering brazenly between pyramids of hyacinths all along its battlements.

The colorful Timshel plants and trees had been cut down and hauled away, the statues had been toppled or removed, the bandstands and benches and pergolas were no more.

But there were no waiting Madonnas under the pergola, and the air of the early spring morning blew chill from the Lido, almost with an intimation of failure to his sensitive mood.

We flew past the Pergolas Caves, well-known and visited by tourists, past the checkerboard of farms and orchards.

Heath Hall had a craggy range of rock garden and a Dutch garden and an Italian rose garden and what its maker might have meant for a Japanese garden, and arbours and pergolas and statues spattered among them, and, farther on, borders of lilies and perennials led up to carpet bedding and beds of geraniums and calceolarias.

The noon sun pounded down, turning the blue tile of the floor pale, drawing knife edges of shadow around the topiaries and pergolas.

I perceived low white walls surrounding an immaculately swept courtyard of plain tile brick, decorated with flowers in earthen pots upon the sill, jasmine bloomed along the unvarnished beams of an axe-hewn pergola.