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WISTERIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any flowering vine of the genus Wisteria
Synonyms:
wistaria; wisteria
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wisteria" is a kind of...):
vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wisteria"):
Japanese wistaria; Wisteria floribunda (having flowers of pink to mauve or violet-blue)
Chinese wistaria; Wisteria chinensis (having deep purple flowers)
American wistaria; American wisteria; Wisteria frutescens (an eastern United States native resembling the cultivated Japanese wisteria having pale purple-lilac flowers)
silky wisteria; Wisteria venusta (a wisteria of China having white flowers)
Holonyms ("wisteria" is a member of...):
genus Wisteria (Asiatic deciduous woody vine having large drooping racemes of white or bluish or purple or pinkish flowers and velvety pods; widely grown as an ornamental)