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Definition: Clematis |
ClematisNoun1. Any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Clematis" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a twig", "a branch". |
Date "clematis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Etymology: Clematis \Clem"a*tis\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression brushwood, also (from its long, lithe branches) clematis. from twig, shoot, from to break off.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Clematis
Clematis hybrid (larger image)Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Ranunculales Family: Ranunculaceae Genus: Clematis Clematis is a genus of plant, known for their vigorous climbing habit, their attractive flowers and hardy nature. The genus includes species such as clematis, leather flower, vasevine and virginsbower. One species, Clematis campaniflora, is also simply known as "clematis."
Species:
- C. addisonii - Addison's Leather Flower
- C. albicoma - Whitehair Leather Flower
- C. alpina - Alpine Virginsbower
- C. baldwinii - Pine Hyacinth
- C. bigelovii - Bigelow Clematis
- C. campaniflora - Clematis
- C. caracasana
- C. catesbyana - Satincurls
- C. coactilis - Virginia Whitehair Leather Flower
- C. columbiana - Columbian Virgin's-bower
- C. crispa - Curly Virginsbower
- C. dioica - Cabellos de Angel
- C. drummondii - Drummond clematis ("Old Man's Beard")
- C. florida - Asian Virginsbower
- C. fremontii - Fremont's Leather Flower
- C. glaucophylla - Whiteleaf Leather Flower
- C. hirsutissima - Hairy Clematis
- C. jackmanii - Jackman's Clematis
- C. lasiantha - Pipestem Clematis
- C. ligusticifolia - Virgin's Bower
- C. marmoraria
- C. morefieldii - Huntsville Vasevine
- C. occidentalis - Western Blue Virginsbower
- C. ochroleuca - Curlyheads
- C. orientalis - Chinese Clematis
- C. palmeri - Palmer Clematis
- C. pauciflora - Ropevine Clematis
- C. pitcheri - Bluebill
- C. recta - Ground Virginsbower
- C. reticulata - Netleaf Leather Flower
- C. socialis - Alabama Leather Flower
- C. tangutica - Golden Virginsbower
- C. terniflora - Leatherleaf Clematis
- C. texensis - Scarlet Leather Flower
- C. versicolor - Manycolored Virginsbower
- C. viorna - Vasevine
- C. virginiana - Devil's Darning Needles, Virginia Bower
- C. vitalba - Evergreen Clematis
- C. viticaulis - Millboro Leather Flower
- C. viticella - Italian Leather Flower
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Clematis."
Crosswords: Clematis |
| English words defined with "clematis": Clematis baldwinii, Clematis lasiantha, Clematis ochreleuca, Clematis tangutica, curly-heads ♦ golden clematis ♦ Lady's bower, leather flower ♦ pine hyacinth, pipestem clematis ♦ traveler's joy ♦ Viorna baldwinii. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "clematis": ANTIRHEUMATIC. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Clematis hybrid. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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| "Clematis" by Shelley Paulson Commentary: "These beautiful flowers were growing on the side of a friend's barn." | "Clematis 1" by Peter E. Leonard Commentary: "Celmatis <br> <br>Free to use for any purpose, but I would appreciate credit for the photo: <br> <br>©2002 Peter E. Leonard." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Clematis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.39% of the time. "Clematis" is used about 62 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.39% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.61% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 62 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "clematis": clematis baldwinii ♦ clematis crispa ♦ clematis lasiantha ♦ clematis ochreleuca ♦ clematis tangutica ♦ clematis texensis ♦ clematis versicolor ♦ clematis verticillaris ♦ Clematis Viorna ♦ clematis virginiana ♦ Clematis vitalba ♦ curly clematis ♦ genus Clematis ♦ golden clematis ♦ marsh clematis ♦ mountain clematis ♦ pipestem clematis ♦ purple clematis ♦ scarlet clematis. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "clematis": clematis-bower, clematis-clad, clematis-like. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "clematis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kulpër (viburnum). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | клематис, повет (old's man beard, traveler's joy, traveller's joy). (various references) | |
Czech | klematis. (various references) | |
Farsi | فل بهار, قلماتیس . (various references) | |
Greek | κληματιτήσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | klemátisz. (various references) | |
Italian | clematide. (various references) | |
Manx | lus yn dorrysh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ematisclay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | clematite (traveller's-joy). (various references) | |
Russian | ломонос (traveler's joy, traveller's joy, traveller's-joy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pavit. (various references) | |
Spanish | clemátide. (various references) | |
Turkish | yabanasması, meryemasması, klemetis, akasma. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | клематіс, ломиніс. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "clematis": clematises. (additional references) | |
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"Clematis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: celmisia, Clamator, clamavi, clamitat, clavatus, cleatis, cleatus, clemantis, clemate, clemetis, Lomatils. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "clematis" (pronounced kle"muti's or kluma"tus) |
| 3 | -t i' s | botrytis, fortis, intis, mantis, Metis, phlebitis, practice, Prentice, solstice. |
| 4 | -a" t u s | apparatus, gratis, lattice, status, Stratus. |
| 3 | -t u s | apprentice, armistice, arthritis, asbestos, berettas, bronchitis, cactus, calamitous, circuitous, countess, detritus, duplicitous, emeritus, encephalitis, eucalyptus, felicitous, fetus, fortuitous, gastritis, glottis, gratuitous, gravitas, hepatitis, hiatus, hostess, impetus, injustice, justice, laryngitis, lettuce, Lotus, malpractice, margaritas, mastoiditis, meningitis, momentous, notice, osteoarthritis, portentous, poultice, precipitous, priestess, prophetess, prospectus, riotous, robustas, serendipitous, situs, solicitous, tortoise, treatise, ubiquitous. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: climates, meticals. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-m-s-t" | |
-1 letter: calmest, camlets, climate, elastic, laciest, latices, malices, metical, sematic. | |
-2 letters: amices, atelic, camels, camise, camlet, castle, claims, cleats, climes, eclats, emails, lamest, macles, mailes, malice, mastic, mescal, mesial, metals, misact, misate, miseat, saltie, samiel, samite, samlet, smalti, stelai, stelic, ticals. | |
-3 letters: acmes, aisle, alecs, alist, almes, amice, amies, calms, camel, cames, caste, cates. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-m-s-t" | |
+1 letter: alchemist, calamites, clammiest, maledicts, metallics, mislocate, timescale. | |
+2 letters: acclimates, alchemists, cacomistle, calamities, calmatives, centesimal, centralism, clematises, collimates, culminates, implicates, lemniscate, malachites, melanistic, melismatic, militances, mislocated, mislocates, semantical, timescales, ultimacies. | |
+3 letters: acclimatise, alchemistic, athleticism, bimetallics, blastematic, cacomistles, calumniates, catechismal, centralisms, cleistogamy, colemanites, compatibles, complicates, ectoplasmic, elastomeric, esemplastic, hemiacetals, lemniscates, mentalistic, meroblastic, metaplastic, militancies, misallocate, schmaltzier, schmalziest, simulcasted, symmetrical, thalassemic. | |
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