Virginia creeper

n. A North American climbing vine (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) having palmately compound leaves with five leaflets and bluish-black berries. Also called woodbine.

Virginia creeper

n 1. (Plants) Also called (US): American ivy or woodbine a vitaceous woody vine, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, of North America, having tendrils with adhesive tips, bluish-black berry-like fruits, and compound leaves that turn red in autumn: widely planted for ornament 2. (Plants) Also called: Japanese ivy a similar related plant, Parthenocissus tricuspidata, of SE Asia, having trilobed leaves and purple berries. US name: Boston ivy

Virgin′ia creep′er

n. a North American climbing plant, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, of the grape family, having palmate leaves, usu. with five leaflets, and bluish black berries. [1660–70, Amer.]

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Virginia creeper - common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruitAmerican ivy, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, woodbinevine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surfacegenus Parthenocissus, Parthenocissus - woody vines having disklike tips on the tendrils

Translations

vite del Canada

Virginia creeper

Virginia creeper,

native woody vine (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) of the family Vitaceae (grapegrape,
common name for the Vitaceae, a family of mostly climbing shrubs, widespread in tropical and subtropical regions and extending into the temperate zones. The woody vines, or lianas, climb by means of tendrils, which botanically are adaptations of terminal buds.
..... Click the link for more information. family), tall growing and popular as a wall covering in the temperate United States. It has blue-black berries and clings by disk-tipped tendrils, some branches hanging free in graceful festoons. The five-fingered leaves—brilliant yellow to red in the fall—are sometimes confused with the three-fingered poison ivy. The Virginia creeper belongs to the same genus as the Boston, or Japanese, ivy. Other names are American ivy, woodbine, and ampelopsisampelopsis
[Gr.,=looking like a vine], botanic name for woody ornamental vines of the genus Ampelopsis, but in horticulture also traditionally applied to the Virginia creeper, Boston ivy, and others of related genera of the family Vitaceae (grape family).
..... Click the link for more information. . Virginia creeper is classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Rhamnales, family Vitaceae.

Virginia creeper

1. a vitaceous woody vine, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, of North America, having tendrils with adhesive tips, bluish-black berry-like fruits, and compound leaves that turn red in autumn: widely planted for ornament 2. a similar related plant, Parthenocissus tricuspidata, of SE Asia, having trilobed leaves and purple berries

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noun common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit

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