A name for various plants of a climbing habit; in early use (later only dialect), convolvulus and ivy; now chiefly (U.S.) the Virginia Creeper Amp…

(see quots.).

the genus Celastrus.

Ampelopsis hederacea and quinquefolia, common climbing plants of the family Vitaceæ.

†(a) the Virginian creeper; (b) a cinchonaceous plant, Psychotria parasitica.

North American. The trailing arbutus, Epigaea repens.

(a) any climbing shrub of the genera Piper or Capsicum; (b) a Virginia creeper, Ampelopsis arborea, of the southern United States.

U.S./ɑːˈbjuːtəs/. Applied to a North American ericaceous plant, Epigæa repens, called also trailing arbutus at trailing, adj. 1b, ground-laurel n. at…

Of a plant, or a branch, stem, or shoot of a plant: see trail, v.1 6. Also in the names of plants with a trailing habit; trailing arbutus: = New En…

the North American plant Dutchman's pipe, Aristolochia macrophylla.

Any of several climbing shrubs of (or formerly included in) the genus Ampelopsis (family Vitaceae), native to eastern Asia and eastern North…

the Trailing Arbutus (Epigæa repens) of North America.

U.S. The climbing bitter-sweet, Celastrus scandens; so called from the waxy scarlet aril of the fruit.

the wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, or the creeping snowberry, Chiogenes hispidula, or their fruit.

bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, a twining plant native to North America.

A trailing perennial herb, Satureja douglasii (formerly Micromeria chamissonis) of the family Labiatæ, native to western North America and bearing…

U.S. Trailing arbutus, Epigaea repens.

trailing arbutus, Epigaea repens.

U.S. creeping snowberry, a trailing evergreen plant (Chiogenes hispidula) common in bogs and woods.

= Virginia creeper n. at Virginia, n. compounds 1b.

U.S. = mayflower, n. 3a. rare.

any of the trailing herbaceous plants comprising the genus Abronia (family Nyctaginaceae), which are native to sandy regions of western North America…

Celastrus scandens of U.S.