wisteria
wisteria Lexical Profile
wisteria Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Of a pale purplish-blue or light lavender color resembling the blossoms of the wisteria plant.
"She chose a delicate wisteria silk gown for the spring wedding."
• noun
A pale purplish-blue or light lavender color characteristic of wisteria blossoms.
"The bedroom walls were painted a soft shade of wisteria that brightened the morning light."
Any of several woody, deciduous climbing vines of the genus Wisteria in the pea family (Fabaceae), native to eastern North America and East Asia and widely cultivated for their long, drooping clusters of fragrant bluish-lilac, purple, pink, or white flowers.
"Cascades of fragrant purple wisteria draped over the garden pergola in late spring."
• Rhymes for wisteria
Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in Modern Latin in 1818 by botanist Thomas Nuttall in honor of the American anatomist Caspar Wistar (1761–1818), with the spelling preserved as Wisteria under international botanical nomenclature rules.
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