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wisteria
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun wisteria has 1 sense
- wisteria(n = noun.plant) wistaria - any flowering vine of the genus Wisteria; Array is a member of genus wisteria
has particulars: japanese wistaria, wisteria floribunda, chinese wistaria, wisteria chinensis, american wistaria, american wisteria, wisteria frutescens, silky wisteria, wisteria venusta
is a kind of vine
OXFORD DICTIONARY
wisteria, n. (also wistaria) any climbing plant of the genus Wisteria, with hanging racemes of blue, purple, or white flowers.
Etymology
C. Wistar (or Wister), Amer. anatomist d. 1818
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