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CLEMATIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("clematis" is a kind of...):
vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)
climber (a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clematis"):
Clematis baldwinii; pine hyacinth; Viorna baldwinii (erect clematis of Florida having pink to purple flowers)
blue jasmine; blue jessamine; Clematis crispa; curly clematis; marsh clematis (climber of southern United States having bluish-purple flowers)
Clematis lasiantha; pipestem clematis (clematis of California)
Clematis ochreleuca; curly-heads (shrubby clematis of the eastern United States having curly foliage)
Clematis tangutica; golden clematis (Chinese clematis with serrate leaves and large yellow flowers)
Clematis texensis; scarlet clematis (woody vine of Texas having showy solitary nodding scarlet flowers)
Clematis versicolor; leather flower (woody vine of the southern United States having purple or blue flowers with leathery recurved sepals)
Clematis viorna; leather flower; vase-fine; vase vine (scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals)
Clematis virginiana; devil's darning needle; old man's beard; virgin's bower (common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers)
Clematis vitalba; old man's beard; traveler's joy; traveller's joy (vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn)
Clematis verticillaris; mountain clematis; purple clematis; purple virgin's bower (climber of northeastern North America having waxy purplish-blue flowers)
Holonyms ("clematis" is a member of...):
genus Clematis (large genus of deciduous or evergreen woody vines or erect herbs)
