ampelopsis

American  

[am-puh-lop-sis] / ˌæm pəˈlɒp sɪs /

noun

1. any climbing, woody vine or shrub belonging to the genus Ampelopsis, of the grape family, having small greenish flowers and inedible berries.

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ampelopsis British  

/ ˌæmpɪˈlɒpsɪs /

noun

1. any woody vine of the vitaceous genus Ampelopsis, of tropical and subtropical Asia and America

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Etymology

Origin of ampelopsis

1803; < New Latin < Greek ámpel ( os ) grapevine + ópsis -opsis

Example Sentences

Michael turned round into the Broad where the fog made mysterious even the tea-tray gothic of Balliol, and Trinity with its municipal ampelopsis.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

For often one sees festooned from one rotted tree to another the ampelopsis vine.

From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Shaw, Ellen Eddy

Monseigneur Cripps lived in a little Gothic house next to St. Joseph's, a trim little Gothic house covered with the oiled curls of an ampelopsis still undyed by autumn's henna.

From The Altar Steps by MacKenzie, Compton

Between the slightly overcrowded urns and statues there were bright dashes of color, here of dahlias in full bloom, there of reddening garlands of ampelopsis or Virginia creeper.

From The Inner Shrine by King, Basil

The ecclesiastical people were like the ampelopsis at Trinity: they were highly colored, but so inappropriate to Oxford, that they seemed almost vulgar.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton