clematis virginiana
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (1)
- common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowersSynonyms: virgin's bowerold man's bearddevil's darning needleClematis virginiana
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Virgin \Vir"gin\, n. [L. virgo, -inis: cf. OF. virgine, virgene, virge, vierge, F. vierge.]
1.A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid. [1913 Webster]
2.A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence. [Archaic] --Wyclif. [1913 Webster]
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins.— Rev. xiv. 4.[1913 Webster]
He his flesh hath overcome; He was a virgin, as he said.— Gower.[1913 Webster]
3.(Astron.) See Virgo. [1913 Webster]
4.(Zool.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae. [1913 Webster]
5.(Zool.) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect. [1913 Webster]
The Virgin, or The Blessed Virgin, the Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ.
Virgin's bower (Bot.), a name given to several climbing plants of the genus Clematis, as Clematis Vitalba of Europe, and Clematis Virginiana of North America. [1913 Webster]