(a) either of two white-flowered climbing plants, common bryony, Bryonia dioica, and traveller's joy, Clematis vitalba; (b) = whitebine n.

A genus of twining shrubs (family Ranunculaceæ), having flowers with a showy calyx and no corolla, and seed-vessels adorned with long feathery…

any of various kinds of clematis; esp. traveller's joy, Clematis vitalba.

any of several woody climbing shrubs of the genus Clematis (family Ranunculaceae); esp. C. vitalba, which has greenish-white flowers and feathery…

The British climbing shrub Clematis Vitalba, traveller's joy.

A name given locally to various twining plants: (a) the Great Hedge Convolvulus (C. sepium); (b) the Bear-bind (Polygonum convolvulus); (c) the…

Now English regional (southern). Traveller's joy, Clematis vitalba. Also called maiden's honesty (see maiden's honesty n. at maiden, n. adj.compounds…

Traveller's joy, Clematis vitalba; = love-bind n. at compounds 7. Obsolete.

traveller's joy, Clematis vitalba (cf. honesty, n. 7b).

†(a) = lady's bower n. at compounds 3c (obsolete); (b) a woman's private room or bedroom (now rare).

= virgin's bower, n.

Traveller's joy, Clematis vitalba; (later, also) any of several similar species of clematis having grey-bearded fruits, esp. (Australian) C. aristata.

A name given by some writers (perhaps erroneously) to Clematis Vitalba, or Traveller's Joy.

the climbing plant traveller's joy, Clematis vitalba, which has feathery seed heads.

local. Traveller's joy.