virgin's bower : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: virgin's bower	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for virgin's bower
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
virgin's bower n common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers Synonym(s): virgin's bower, old man's beard, devil's darning needle, Clematis virginiana
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Virgin \Vir"gin\, n. [L. virgo, -inis: cf. OF. virgine, virgene, virge, vierge, F. vierge.] 1. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid. 2. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual indulgence. [Archaic] --Wyclif. These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. --Rev. xiv. 4. He his flesh hath overcome; He was a virgin, as he said. --Gower. 3. (Astron.) See {Virgo}. 4. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged butterflies of the family {Lyc[91]nid[91]}. 5. (Zo[94]l.) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect. {The Virgin}, [or] {The Blessed Virgin}, the Virgin Mary, the Mother of our Lord. {Virgin's bower} (Bot.), a name given to several climbing plants of the genus {Clematis}, as {C. Vitalba} of Europe, and {C. Virginiana} of North America.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Clematis \Clem"a*tis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] brushwood, also (from its long, lithe branches) clematis. fr. [?] twig, shoot, fr. [?] to break off.] (Bot.) A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also {virgin's bower}.