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CLIMBING HYDRANGEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deciduous climber with aerial roots having white to creamy flowers in fairly flat heads
Synonyms:
climbing hydrangea; Hydrangea anomala
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("climbing hydrangea" is a kind of...):
hydrangea (any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Hydrangea)
Holonyms ("climbing hydrangea" is a member of...):
genus Hydrangea (type genus of Hydrangeaceae; large genus of shrubs and some trees and vines with white or pink or blue flower clusters; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Deciduous climber with aerial roots having large flat flower heads
Synonyms:
climbing hydrangea; Hydrangea petiolaris
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("climbing hydrangea" is a kind of...):
hydrangea (any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Hydrangea)
Holonyms ("climbing hydrangea" is a member of...):
genus Hydrangea (type genus of Hydrangeaceae; large genus of shrubs and some trees and vines with white or pink or blue flower clusters; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Climbing shrub with adhesive aerial roots having opposite leaves and small white flowers in terminal cymes; Himalayas to Taiwan and Japan
Synonyms:
climbing hydrangea; Schizophragma hydrangeoides
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("climbing hydrangea" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("climbing hydrangea" is a member of...):
genus Schizophragma; Schizophragma (small genus of deciduous climbing and creeping shrubs with white flowers in flat clusters; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae)