WISTERIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wisteria mean? 

• WISTERIA (noun)
  The noun WISTERIA has 1 sense:

1. any flowering vine of the genus Wisteria

  Familiarity information: WISTERIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WISTERIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any flowering vine of the genus Wisteria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

wistaria; wisteria

Hypernyms ("wisteria" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wisteria"):

Japanese wistaria; Wisteria floribunda (having flowers of pink to mauve or violet-blue)

Chinese wistaria; Wisteria chinensis (having deep purple flowers)

American wistaria; American wisteria; Wisteria frutescens (an eastern United States native resembling the cultivated Japanese wisteria having pale purple-lilac flowers)

silky wisteria; Wisteria venusta (a wisteria of China having white flowers)

Holonyms ("wisteria" is a member of...):

genus Wisteria (Asiatic deciduous woody vine having large drooping racemes of white or bluish or purple or pinkish flowers and velvety pods; widely grown as an ornamental)