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Meanings of woodbine in English

Common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit.

European twining honeysuckle with fragrant red and yellow-white flowers.

Synonyms
Examples for "Virginia creeper"
Examples for "Virginia creeper"
1
Across the lawn a Virginia creeper draped the house with vivid tints.
Ranching for Sylvia
2
To-day it pleased her to decorate the table with Virginia creeper.
The Dangerous Age: Letters and Fragments from a Woman's Diary
3
Beside him on an unpainted trellis, Virginia creeper rattled in an October wind.
The Servant Problem
4
It was of bluish stone, and half covered with Virginia creeper.
A Modern Chronicle — Volume 07
5
He found nothing but bedraggled Virginia creeper and more dead leaves.
The Servant Problem
1
He now has a good vegetable garden fenced in, a rustic porch covered with American ivy, and-wouldyou believe it?-anactual flower-bed.
Nature's Serial Story
2
Sir Alex Ferguson has transferred from the English Premier League to the American Ivy League with a new job at Harvard Business School.
The Irish Times
Usage of woodbine in English
1
The woodbine is good for its fall color, although weedy in growth.
Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 / Embracing the Tra...
2
We are the city equivalent to the woodbine and the honeysuckle.
Waifs and Strays / Part 1
3
The wall streamed with woodbine, very glorious in its autumnal flamings.
Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front
4
A scarlet woodbine swung lazily back and forth beyond the window.
Men, Women, and Ghosts
5
He took a sprig of woodbine that was coloured of cream and butter.
The Trespasser
6
The leaves were deep-lobed, shaped a little like woodbine, but rough to touch.
Across the Fruited Plain
7
Something indescribably phobic shuffled out and sat by the track, smoking a woodbine.
Johannes cabal the necromancer
8
How cool was the sitting-room, with the woodbine falling about the open windows!
Our Holidays / Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nichola...
9
How cool was the sitting-room, with the woodbine falling about the open window!
Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
10
The woodbine, and this is a strange fancy, is the king of the woods.
The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Irel...
11
By this time they had reached an arbor completely overgrown with jasmine and woodbine.
The Adventures of Maya the Bee
12
So doth the woodbine, the sweet honeysuckle, gently en- twist.
The Irish Times
13
Great crimson roses, wet with dew, and odorous woodbine peeped in as she opened it.
Marion Arleigh's Penance / Everyday Life Library No. 5
14
He did not answer at once, and she thrust her hand through the woodbine again.
The Velvet Glove
15
When the cherries are gone, they visit the sassafras and pepperidge trees, and the woodbine tangles.
Friends and Helpers
16
The several varieties of clematis are desirable if combined with the heavier growing grape or woodbine.
Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 / Embracing the Tra...
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