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Climbing plant with flowers
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clematis
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A mass of flowers covered the house, a pink climbing rose and a creamy clematis . ▪ Brushing aside looping clematis , she poised to run but her head smacked full-tilt on a wall of spiderglass. ▪ It has been replaced with trellis ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
plant genus, 1550s, "periwinkle," from Latin Clematis , from Greek klematis , in Dioscorides as the name of a climbing or trailing plant (OED says probably the periwinkle) with long and lithe branches, diminutive of klema "vine-branch, shoot or twig broken ...
Usage examples of clematis.
The vines of the clematis tangutica climbed the trellis and the foxglove and aconitum looked hearty and healthy.
The mountains through which it forces its way on the other side are precipitous and wooded to their summits with coniferae, while the less abrupt side, along which the tract is carried, curves into green knolls in its lower slopes, sprinkled with grand Spanish chestnuts scarcely yet in blossom, with maples which have not yet lost the scarlet which they wear in spring as well as autumn, and with many flowering trees and shrubs which are new to me, and with an undergrowth of red azaleas, syringa, blue hydrangea--the very blue of heaven--yellow raspberries, ferns, clematis, white and yellow lilies, blue irises, and fifty other trees and shrubs entangled and festooned by the wistaria, whose beautiful foliage is as common as is that of the bramble with us.
October came feathery deutzia, great--hearted roses, the wild clematis, and white muntein from the scrub.
The backyard, as concise as the house, is enclosed by a scrim of privet hedge and monopolized by flowerbeds: peonies in late, tempestuous bloom, trellised veils of clematis and rugosa roses, gladiolas hinting at the colors sheathed in their spearlike buds.
But here were gums and wattles, and the undergrowth was Macrozamia and Chorizema and Wild Fuschia and Clematis and Sarsaparilla vine.
Harper started this gorgeous purple clematis on a copper trellis and put in a trio of oakleaf hydrangeas.
CLEMATIS and eglantine, that ascended to the south, led the eye, now that the casements were thrown open, through this verdant shade, over a sloping lawn, to the tops of dark woods, that hung upon the brow of the promontory.
Anyway, a proper husband, also a professor, two children and a villa on the Wilhelrn-Weber-Strasse with windowboxes of clematis.
Wild charlock--a clear yellow--pink pimpernels, pink-streaked convolvulus, great white convolvulus, double-yellow toadflax, blue borage, broad rays of blue chicory, tall corn-cockles, azure corn-flowers, the great mallow, almost a bush, purple knapweed--I will make no further catalogue, but there are pages more of flowers, great and small, that grow at the edge of the plough, from the coltsfoot that starts out of the clumsy clod in spring to the white clematis.
It was used as a support for the delicate tendrils of the clematis, and he was now more than halfway up it.
Nedda, waking, could hear the heavy drops pattering on the sweetbrier and clematis thatching her open window.
After a quick look around, she headed for a clump of birch trees draped with clematis vines.
Sometimes it is the perfume of clematis which decides one in his choice or the roguish glance of the servant at an inn.
Where dead trees had fallen, carob grew up, shadowing buckthorn, clematis, and spiny grass.
The Chinese yew and virginciana trees were draped in a lacework of dark green ivy and clematis vines, clusters of plate-sized red and lilac flowers dangling.