wisteria

See also: Wisteria

English

Etymology

Wisteria sinensis trees (vernacular 'Chinese wisteria')

From the genus name.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /wɪsˈtɛriə/, also IPA^(key): /wɪsˈtiriə/

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Noun

wisteria (countable and uncountable, plural wisterias)

1. Any of several woody climbing vines, of the genus Wisteria, native to the East Asian countries of China, Korea, and Japan and the eastern United States.
   • 2019, “Electric Cross”, performed by Spiritbox:

     I know it's typical of me to keep secrets to find my way back again
     Touch of conditional love
     Reasons to keep me from binding the pathogen
     Wisteria grows
     I just want a clear view

Derived terms

• water wisteria

 

Translations

a genus of about ten species of woody climbing vines

• Bulgarian: глици́ния f (glicínija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紫藤 (zh) (zǐténg)

• Dutch: blauweregen (nl) m
• Finnish: visteri
• French: glycine (fr) f
• German: Blauregen (de) m
• Greek: πασχαλιά (el) f (paschaliá)
• Interlingua: glycinia
• Irish: visteáiria f
• Italian: glicine (it) m
• Japanese: 藤 (ja) (フジ, ふじ, fuji)
• Korean: 등나무 (ko) (deungnamu)
• Polish: glicynia f, słodlin m, wisteria (pl) f
• Portuguese: wisteria f, glicínia (pt) f
• Romanian: glicină (ro) f
• Russian: глици́ния (ru) f (glicínija), висте́рия (ru) f (vistérija)
• Spanish: wisteria f, glicina (es) f, glicinia f
• Swedish: blåregn (sv) n
• Thai: วิสเทียเรีย (wîs-tiia-riia), วีสเตียเรีย (wîis-tiia-riia), ฟูจิ (fuu-jì)

See also

• wistaria

Portuguese

Noun

wisteria f (plural wisterias)

1. (rare) wisteria (woody climbing vine of the genus Wisteria)

   Synonym: glicínia

Spanish

Noun

wisteria f (plural wisterias)

1. (rare) wisteria (woody climbing vine of the genus Wisteria)

   Synonyms: glicina, glicinia