any twining leguminous woody climbing plant of the genus Wisteria, of E Asia and North America, having blue, purple, or white flowers in large drooping clusters
Word origin
C19: from New Latin, named after Caspar Wistar (1761–1818), American anatomist
Examples of 'wistaria' in a sentence
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The oriel windows could just be made out in the grey stone of the building, and very faintly, the delicate colour of the wistaria.
Haines, Pamela THE GOLDEN LION
Did the butterflies get soggy and plummet into the 100-year-old wistaria?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
I have tried this with a clematis and a wistaria; both flowered within weeks.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
She couldn't be referring to that email last week about wisteria/ wistaria, couldshe?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He told us all about the wistaria bill.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The walls will also be clad in wistaria.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
But the creeper and wistaria had to go.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
After all, without journalists, moats would still be being cleared at the public expense, and wistaria pruned.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Should it be wisteria or wistaria?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The cookery course was in an old farmhouse draped in wistaria and surrounded by almond trees.