silver-bushn.
1. The plant Jupiter's beard.
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widow wail1597
silver-bush1640
Jupiter's beard1760
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1459 Iovis barba frutex, the Silver Bush.
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 112 Winged hoary shining leaves, bearing yellow flowers in clusters... Silver Bush.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Silverbush, a Plant called in Latin Barba Jovis, kept as a great rarity by divers Herbalists.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Colutea Ethiopian Bladder-Sena, with Scarlet Flowers, and Leaves like the Silver Bush.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxv. 356 That which is generally called Jupiter's beard or Silver-bush from the splendid whiteness of the leaves.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1059/1.
2. local. Traveller's joy.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > climbing, trailing, or creeping shrubs > [noun] > clematis or traveller's joy
white vine?a1425
clematis1578
lady's bower1597
traveller's joy1597
virgin's bower1597
bethwine1609
honesty1640
love1640
maiden's honesty1691
lady bower1715
virgin-bower1725
old man's beard1731
bindwith1797
Robin Hood's feather1820
silver-bush1886
1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Silver Bush, Clematis Vitalba,—Jersey.
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