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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:

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 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)

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