devil's darning needle

Questions about devil's darning needle

What does devil's darning needle mean?

devil's darning needle means "common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for devil's darning needle?

Close synonyms include virgin's bower, old man's beard, Clematis virginiana, dragonfly, 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 devil's darning needle a common word?

devil's darning needle 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.