wisteria
noun
any climbing shrub belonging to the genus Wisteria, of the legume family, having showy, pendent clusters of blue-violet, white, purple, or rose flowers.
wistaria
-
a variation of
wisteria.
Example Sentences
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In Princeton, Einstein lives with simplicity in a prim, box-shaped frame house, with a wistaria vine shrouding the front porch.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have only to appear, magnolia fresh, on the piazza, and the rustle of death stirs in the wistaria trees.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mountains tumble abruptly down to Atami's yellow beach, and at this time of year the wistaria blooms in purple luxuriance on the walls of inns and cottages that cling to Atami's hillsides.
From Time Magazine Archive
It began to take shape in its same curious, light, gravity-defying attitude—the once-folded sheet out of the wistaria Mississippi summer, the cigar smell, the random blowing of the fireflies.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
But if Mother was up we always began by playing on the porch until she said we were making too much noise, then we went out and played under the wistaria frame.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
