CLEMATIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clematis mean? 

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

1. any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLEMATIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

climber (a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants)

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

Clematis baldwinii; pine hyacinth; Viorna baldwinii (erect clematis of Florida having pink to purple flowers)

blue jasmine; blue jessamine; Clematis crispa; curly clematis; marsh clematis (climber of southern United States having bluish-purple flowers)

Clematis lasiantha; pipestem clematis (clematis of California)

Clematis ochreleuca; curly-heads (shrubby clematis of the eastern United States having curly foliage)

Clematis tangutica; golden clematis (Chinese clematis with serrate leaves and large yellow flowers)

Clematis texensis; scarlet clematis (woody vine of Texas having showy solitary nodding scarlet flowers)

Clematis versicolor; leather flower (woody vine of the southern United States having purple or blue flowers with leathery recurved sepals)

Clematis viorna; leather flower; vase-fine; vase vine (scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals)

Clematis virginiana; devil's darning needle; old man's beard; virgin's bower (common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers)

Clematis vitalba; old man's beard; traveler's joy; traveller's joy (vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn)

Clematis verticillaris; mountain clematis; purple clematis; purple virgin's bower (climber of northeastern North America having waxy purplish-blue flowers)

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

genus Clematis (large genus of deciduous or evergreen woody vines or erect herbs)