purple clematis

1. 1.

   climber of northeastern North America having waxy purplish-blue flowers

   Synonymspurple virgin's bowermountain clematisClematis verticillaris

   Broaderclematis

Questions about purple clematis

What does purple clematis mean?

purple clematis means "climber of northeastern North America having waxy purplish-blue flowers".

What is another word for purple clematis?

Close synonyms include purple virgin's bower, mountain clematis, Clematis verticillaris. 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 purple clematis a common word?

purple clematis 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.