virgin's bowern.
/ˈvəːdʒɪnz ˌbaʊə/, U.S. /ˈvərdʒənz ˌbaʊ(ə)r/ a. The British climbing shrub Clematis Vitalba, traveller's joy.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 741 Vpright Clamberer or Virgins Bower, is also a kinde of Clematis.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 68/2 The Virgins Bower groweth like the Honysuckle.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 500 Traveller's-joy. Great Wild Climber. Virgin's Bower.
1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 73 Virgin's bower, trailing airily.
1842 Florist's Jrnl. (1846) 3 36 The twisting or bending back of the petioles over any horizontal body,..as in the Virgin's bower.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 261 And woodbine, and the odorous virgin's-bower, Hung in great heaps about that undyked tower.
b. Applied to other species of Clematis, esp. to the American species C. virginiana, or employed as book-name for the whole genus.
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virgin's bower1668
virgin's bower1704
vine-bower1852
pipestem clematis1901
pipestem1932
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. iv. §6. 111 Clematis, Virgins~bower.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Virgins Bower,..in botany, the name of a genus of plants;..The flower is of the rosaceous kind.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 331 Virgin's Bower, Clematis.
1771 J. R. Forster Flora Amer. Septentrionalis 25 Clematis viorna. Virgin's bower, violet. Virg. Car.
1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) 65 One of our most beautiful climbing plants is the Clematis virginica, or virgin's bower.
1856 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Flower Garden 158 Virgin's Bower—Clematis montana, Viticella, and its varieties, are hardy climbers, pretty when trained over lattice-work.
1866 J. G. Whittier Maids of Attitash 15 Hardhack, and virgin's-bower, And white-spiked clethra~flower.
1880 C. E. Bessey Bot. 564 Clematis, the Virgin's Bower, of many species.
c. With distinctive premodifiers.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > climbing, trailing, or creeping shrubs > [noun] > clematis or traveller's joy > other types of clematis
virgin's bower1668
virgin's bower1704
vine-bower1852
pipestem clematis1901
pipestem1932
1704 Dict. Rusticum (at cited word) The Purple Virgin's-Bower... The Double-purple Virgin's-Bower.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 190 Double Virgin Bower is a climbing Tree, fit to cover some place of Repose.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Clematitis Purple creeping Climber, or Single Virgins Bower.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Clematitis Blue Climber with a double Flower, or Double Virgins Bower.
1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 39 Clematis Cirrhosa. Evergreen Virgin's Bower.
1862 Chambers's Encycl. III. 73/2 Clematis flammula, a native of the south of Europe and north of Africa,..is the species known as Sweet Virgin's Bower.
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