traveller's joy
English
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Alternative forms
- traveler's joy (US)
Noun
- A climbing shrub native to Europe, Clematis vitalba.
- 1988, Christina Pribićević-Zorić, translating Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage 1989, p. 309:
- The winds howled from the other side of the Morava River, which was stilled by ice, while along the banks the ice lay unmowed, full of icicled reeds, traveler's joy, and sedge, as though the ice were growing a silver beard.
- 1988, Christina Pribićević-Zorić, translating Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage 1989, p. 309:
Synonyms
- (Clematis vitalba): lady's bower, old man's beard, virgin's bower
Translations
Clematis vitalba
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