noun
Meaning 1
A fringe tree (Chionanthus virginicus).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
old man's beard
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noun
Meaning 2
Australian clematis (Clematis aristata).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Traveller's joy (Clematis vitalba), a climbing plant of Europe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides), a bromeliad of the Americas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Beard lichen (Usnea spp.).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: usnea
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see old, man, -'s, beard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: virgin's bower, devil's darning needle, Clematis virginiana
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: clematis
noun
Meaning 8
vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: traveler's joy, traveller's joy, Clematis vitalba
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: clematis
noun
Meaning 9
dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Spanish moss, black moss, long moss, Tillandsia usneoides
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: air plant, epiphyte, aerophyte, epiphytic plant
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: baldiéganu — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Asturian: billacera — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Asturian: bidacu — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Asturian: bidaquera — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Asturian: bilortera — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Asturian: bilortu — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Asturian: escaderna — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Bulgarian: по́вет (póvet) — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Catalan: vidalba — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Dutch: bosrank — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Finnish: saksankärhö — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- French: clématite des haies — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Icelandic: hvít bergsóley — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Italian: vitalba — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Macedonian: павит (pavit) — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Macedonian: повит (povit) — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Russian: ломоно́с виноградоли́стный (lomonós vinogradolístnyj) — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Russian: клема́тис виноградоли́стный (klemátis vinogradolístnyj) — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Spanish: abrazadera — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Spanish: barba de Dios — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Spanish: canduerca — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Spanish: clemátide — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Spanish: hierba de los pordioseros — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Spanish: jazmín de monte — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Spanish: muermera — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Spanish: placer del viajero — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Spanish: vidalba — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Spanish: vidarra — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Spanish: vid blanca — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Spanish: vidraria — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Turkish: akasma — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)
- Welsh: barf hen ŵr — Chionanthus virginicus (traveller's joy)