Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of leguminous plants, of the tribe Galegeæ and subtribe Tephrosieæ.
- noun [lowercase] A plant of this genus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers. Now commonly spelled
Wisteria .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
wisteria .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any flowering vine of the genus Wisteria
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Examples
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The wistaria is a very Japanese flower, and it has a feminine elegance.
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“The wistaria pods had chosen midnight to explode and distribute their multiplying fund of life down the length of the room.”
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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It was the seed of a wistaria fruit he had brought into his home earlier.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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“The wistaria pods had chosen midnight to explode and distribute their multiplying fund of life down the length of the room.”
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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“The wistaria pods had chosen midnight to explode and distribute their multiplying fund of life down the length of the room.”
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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It was the seed of a wistaria fruit he had brought into his home earlier.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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It was the seed of a wistaria fruit he had brought into his home earlier.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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We walked between the box edgings and beds of begonias and into the shadow of a yew hedge within twenty yards of that very pond with the gold-fish, at whose brim we had plighted our vows, and so we came to the wistaria-smothered porch.
In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006
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The wistaria along the fence was green and the shade was cool and life was old.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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The wistaria along the fence was green and the shade was cool and life was old.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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