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Meanings of old man's beard in English

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Dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America.

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Portuguese
clematis vitalba

Vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn.

clematis vitalba

Common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers.

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Examples for "virgin's bower"
Examples for "virgin's bower"
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C. CIRRHOSA.-EvergreenVirgin'sBower.
Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs
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One of my pets, after plying her mother with about forty questions, wound up with, Mother, how does the devil's darning needle sleep?
Memories and Anecdotes
Usage of old man's beard in English
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I was glad that the dark hid the whiteness of the old man's beard from my view.
In Those Days: The Story of an Old Man
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Gidge takes part of the old man's beard and uses it as a pillow to sleep on.
Independent.ie
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Then the youth seized the ax, split the anvil with one blow, and struck the old man's beard in with it.
The Junior Classics, Volume 1: Fairy and wonder tales
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Then the youth took up an axe, and, splitting the anvil at one blow, wedged the old man's beard in it.
Grimm's Fairy Stories
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The draftsman has not forgotten this detail: the old man's beard spreads in a snowy avalanche over the apron and comes down to his knees.
The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
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C. VITALBA.-Lady'sBower, or OldMan'sBeard.
Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs
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"Perhaps you'd not like to be called Old Man's Beard?"
Mary's Meadow, and Other Tales of Fields and Flowers
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Mistress, how can any one think that?-thatI could bite the hand that fed me! The tears trickled down on the oldman'sbeard.
O Pioneers!
Translations for old man's beard