clematis virginiana

1. 1.

   common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers

   Synonymsvirgin's bowerold man's bearddevil's darning needle

   Broaderclematis

Questions about clematis virginiana

What does clematis virginiana mean?

clematis virginiana means "common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers".

What is another word for clematis virginiana?

Close synonyms include virgin's bower, old man's beard, devil's darning needle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is clematis virginiana a common word?

clematis virginiana is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.