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  • noun Plural form of wisteria.

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Examples

  • The gardens were full with luscious lilacs and wisterias in bloom and the scent of moist leaves, dirt and cut grass was liberating and refreshing after being in the noisy city for a few days Paris is so much noisier than Vancouver, not surprisingly!

    Archive 2009-05-01 Ayala Sender 2009

  • The gardens were full with luscious lilacs and wisterias in bloom and the scent of moist leaves, dirt and cut grass was liberating and refreshing after being in the noisy city for a few days Paris is so much noisier than Vancouver, not surprisingly!

    Paris Day III - Le Chateu de Versailles Ayala Sender 2009

  • I'm going to have to have a much closer look at the grapevines, wisterias, and morning glories around here.

    Vine Growth James Gurney 2009

  • Also in May the standard wisterias in the Vineyard garden come into their own.

    Bluebell And Spring Spectacular At Hole Park Gardens Thatsnews 2009

  • Also in May the standard wisterias in the Vineyard garden come into their own.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Thatsnews 2009

  • MMD I have seen some old and beautiful standard wisterias at Knightshayes, Devon, England.

    Pee Gee Hydrangea Standards « Fairegarden 2008

  • A panel of painted white wood-work ran around an octagonal chamber, into which stole silently the evening twilight through open windows and across a long brick-walled garden-space full of roses and Virginia creepers and odorless wisterias.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

  • The wisterias tumbled their cataracts of blue blossoms down the spouts; rare flowers, of minute proportions, burst from the button-holes of the young horsemen going to the Bois; the gloves of the American colony became lilac; hyacinths, daffodils and pansies moved by wagon-loads over the streets and soared to the windows of the sewing-girls.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

  • Under the elm trees along the Mall the air was purple as wisterias.

    Youth and the Bright Medusa 1920

  • I liked the solid air of the big house, which had two wings at the back, corresponding to the wings in front; the long row of stone pedimented windows, with heavy white casements, was plain and stately, and there were some fine magnolias and wisterias trained upon the walls.

    Father Payne Benson, Arthur C. 1915

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