climbing hydrangea

1. 1.

   climbing shrub with adhesive aerial roots having opposite leaves and small white flowers in terminal cymes; Himalayas to Taiwan and Japan

   SynonymsSchizophragma hydrangeoides

   Broadershrub

   Part ofSchizophragma
2. 2.

   deciduous climber with aerial roots having large flat flower heads

   SynonymsHydrangea petiolaris

   Broaderhydrangea

   Part ofgenus Hydrangea
3. 3.

   deciduous climber with aerial roots having white to creamy flowers in fairly flat heads

   SynonymsHydrangea anomala

   Broaderhydrangea

   Part ofgenus Hydrangea

Questions about climbing hydrangea

What does climbing hydrangea mean?

climbing hydrangea means "climbing shrub with adhesive aerial roots having opposite leaves and small white flowers in terminal cymes; Himalayas to Taiwan and Japan". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for climbing hydrangea?

Close synonyms include Schizophragma hydrangeoides, Hydrangea petiolaris, Hydrangea anomala. 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 climbing hydrangea a common word?

climbing hydrangea 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.