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clem⋅a⋅tis

[klem-uh-tis, kli-mat-is]

–noun

any of numerous plants or woody vines of the genus Clematis, including many species cultivated for their showy, variously colored flowers.

Compare traveler's-joy, virgin's-bower.

Origin:
1545–55; < L < Gk klēmatís name of several climbing plants

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clem·a·tis (klěm'ə-tĭs, klĭ-māt'ĭs) Pronunciation Key
n. Any of various ornamental, mostly climbing plants of the genus Clematis, native chiefly to northern temperate regions and having showy, variously colored flowers or decorative fruit clusters.

[Latin clēmatis, a creeping plant, from Greek klēmatis, from klēma, klēmat-, twig.]

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clematis

1551, from L. Clematis, from Gk. klematis, name of some kind of climbing or trailing plant (probably the periwinkle), from klema "vine-branch."

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clematis
noun
any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers

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Clematis

Clem"a*tis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? brushwood, also (from its long, lithe branches) clematis. fr. ? twig, shoot, fr. ? to break off.] (Bot.) A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower.