CLIMBING HYDRANGEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does climbing hydrangea mean? 

• CLIMBING HYDRANGEA (noun)
  The noun CLIMBING HYDRANGEA has 3 senses:

1. climbing shrub with adhesive aerial roots having opposite leaves and small white flowers in terminal cymes; Himalayas to Taiwan and Japan

2. deciduous climber with aerial roots having large flat flower heads

3. deciduous climber with aerial roots having white to creamy flowers in fairly flat heads

  Familiarity information: CLIMBING HYDRANGEA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLIMBING HYDRANGEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Climbing shrub with adhesive aerial roots having opposite leaves and small white flowers in terminal cymes; Himalayas to Taiwan and Japan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

climbing hydrangea; Schizophragma hydrangeoides

Hypernyms ("climbing hydrangea" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("climbing hydrangea" is a member of...):

genus Schizophragma; Schizophragma (small genus of deciduous climbing and creeping shrubs with white flowers in flat clusters; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deciduous climber with aerial roots having large flat flower heads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

climbing hydrangea; Hydrangea petiolaris

Hypernyms ("climbing hydrangea" is a kind of...):

hydrangea (any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Hydrangea)

Holonyms ("climbing hydrangea" is a member of...):

genus Hydrangea (type genus of Hydrangeaceae; large genus of shrubs and some trees and vines with white or pink or blue flower clusters; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Deciduous climber with aerial roots having white to creamy flowers in fairly flat heads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

climbing hydrangea; Hydrangea anomala

Hypernyms ("climbing hydrangea" is a kind of...):

hydrangea (any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Hydrangea)

Holonyms ("climbing hydrangea" is a member of...):

genus Hydrangea (type genus of Hydrangeaceae; large genus of shrubs and some trees and vines with white or pink or blue flower clusters; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae)