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▪ I. clematis|ˈklɛmətɪs|
[a. L. Clēmatis, a. Gr. κληµατίς some kind of climbing or trailing plant, prob. periwinkle, f. κλῆµα vine-branch. (A frequent mispronunciation is cleˈmātis.)]
1. A genus of twining shrubs (family Ranunculaceæ), having flowers with a showy calyx and no corolla, and seed-vessels adorned with long feathery appendages. The only British species is C. Vitalba, common in hedgerows on the chalk, popularly called Virgin's Bower, Traveller's Joy, and Old Man's Beard. C. Flammula, with small white sweet-scented flowers, and various species with large showy blue, purple, or red flowers, are cultivated in gardens in Britain.
1578Lyte Dodoens iii. xlviii. 385 Pereuincle..is named Clematis in Latine, and therefore men call this kind Clematis altera, there be founde two kindes, ouer and bysides that plant whiche is nowe called in Latine Vitalba. 1597Gerard Herbal ii. cccxxvii. 889 The white Clematis. 1601Holland Pliny II, 191. 1767 J. Abercrombie Ev. Man own Gard. Cal. (1803) 697/1 Clematis, virgin's bower. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. xxvi, The clematis, the favoured flower, Which boasts the name of virgin-bower. 1842Tennyson Golden Year 63 Like an oaken stock in winter woods, O'er-flourished with the hoary clematis. 1870― Window 23 Rose, rose, and clematis, Trail and twine and clasp and kiss.
†2. Formerly applied (as in classical Lat. and Gr.) to the Periwinkle (Vinca).
1551Turner Herbal i. K vj b, Clematis is named in englyshe perwyncle. 1607Topsell Serpents (1653) 637 The Egyptian Clematis or Periwink drunk in Vinegar, is very good against the poyson of Asps.
▪ II. clematis
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