Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Virginia \Vir*gin"i*a\, n. One of the States of the United States of America. -- a. Of or pertaining to the State of Virginia.
Virginia cowslip (Bot.), the American lungwort ( Mertensia Virginica).
Virginia creeper (Bot.), a common ornamental North American woody vine ( Ampelopsis quinquefolia), climbing extensively by means of tendrils; -- called also woodbine, and American ivy. [U. S.]
Virginia fence. See Worm fence, under Fence.
Virginia nightingale (Zo["o]l.), the cardinal bird. See under Cardinal.
Virginia quail (Zo["o]l.), the bobwhite.
Virginia reel, an old English contradance; -- so called in
the United States.
--Bartlett.
Virginia stock. (Bot.) See Mahon stock.
Wikipedia
Virginia Creeper is the third album by American singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips, released on 24 February 2004.
Usage examples of "virginia creeper".
That was the rhododendron in the eighteenth century--and the camellia, the hydrangea, the wild cherry, the rudbeckia, the azalea, the aster, the ostrich fern, the catalpa, the spice bush, the Venus flytrap, the Virginia creeper, the euphorbia.
Placed end to end his blood vessels might have coiled up the Tower of Flints and half way down again like a Virginia creeper -- a vampire's home from home.
Snow had also filled up the cups of the winter jasmine that jostled with the Virginia creeper climbing up the front of her house.
She turned from making pale tea with the leaves still wet in the strainer, staring out to the disconsolate garland high in the limbs of the mulberry tree, down the fence where the wild grape's few blemished leaves still clung to the tangle of curl and tendril and the rest of them gone to earth in scraps so withered brown they'd no more claim left to identity than torn scraps of a grocery bag, on down where the Virginia creeper lingering flushed a deeper red and bittersweet paled yellow toward the sparse heights of the wild cherry caught in the glance of morning sun in hesitating shades of yellows, even pinks as though, as though suddenly arrested in its inconspicuous departure, as though Paul?
Limefield House was the color of warm honey, and half of its front was covered in Virginia creeper.
Nevertheless, when Diana and the other girls had rushed frantically around the house--except Ruby Gillis, who remained as if rooted to the ground and went into hysterics--they found Anne lying all white and limp among the wreck and ruin of the Virginia creeper.
Gleaming Virginia creeper jacketed the walls and threatened to close the shutters.
The first crisp maple-leaves began to spin across Miss Hatchard's lawn, and the Virginia creeper on the Memorial splashed the white porch with scarlet.
Day by day the flame of the Virginia creeper spread to the hillsides in wider waves of carmine and crimson, the larches glowed like the thin yellow halo about a fire, the maples blazed and smouldered, and the black hemlocks turned to indigo against the incandescence of the forest.