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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several climbing woody vines of the genus Wisteria in the pea family, having pinnately compound leaves and drooping racemes of showy purplish or white flowers.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of several woody climbing vines, of the genus Wisteria, native to the East Asian countries of China, Korea, and Japan and the eastern United States.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Same as wistaria.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any flowering vine of the genus Wisteria

Etymologies

  1. New Latin Wisteria, genus name, after Caspar Wistar (1761-1818), American physician. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • MIRIAMKELLYDUNCAN the color of purple Sep 15, 2011

  • oroboros Along with the scent of the plumeria blossom (frangipani).

    I also like Alyssum and Jacaranda as olfactory charmers... Aug 22, 2007

  • jennarenn This may be one of the best scents on Earth. Aug 21, 2007

  • abraxaszugzwang A black sheep boy dissolves
    In hot cream, in sweet moans
    In each dead bed and empty home
    In each seething bacterium

    Killing softly and serial
    He lifts his head, handsome, horned, magisterial
    He's the smell of the moonlight wisteria
    He's the thrill of the abecedarian
    (See the muddy hoofprints where he carried you?)

    -Okkervil River Jan 21, 2007

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