wisteria

See also: Wisteria

English

Wisteria sinensis trees (vernacular 'Chinese wisteria')

Etymology

Borrowed from taxonomic name Wisteria.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /wɪsˈtɛriə/, also IPA^(key): /wɪsˈtiriə/

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Noun

wisteria (countable and uncountable, plural wisterias)

2. Any of several woody climbing vines, of the genus Wisteria, native to the East Asian countries of China, Korea, and Japan and the eastern United States.
   • 2019, “Electric Cross”, performed by Spiritbox:

     I know it's typical of me to keep secrets to find my way back again
     Touch of conditional love
     Reasons to keep me from binding the pathogen
     Wisteria grows
     I just want a clear view

   • 2024 November, Sophie Gilbert, quoting Jilly Cooper, “The Silliest, Sexiest Show of the Year”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     (I’m too often haunted by a line from her 2006 novel, Wicked!, in which she tackles 9/11 by lamenting that the “people leaping out of the flaming tower windows” tragically had “no wisteria to aid their descent.”)

Derived terms

• tree wisteria
• water wisteria

Translations

a genus of about ten species of woody climbing vines

• Bulgarian: глици́ния f (glicínija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紫藤 (zh) (zǐténg)

• Czech: vistárie f
• Danish: blåregn c
• Dutch: blauweregen (nl) m
• Faroese: bláregn n
• Finnish: visteri
• French: glycine (fr) f
• German: Blauregen (de) m
• Greek: πασχαλιά (el) f (paschaliá)
• Interlingua: glycinia
• Irish: visteáiria f
• Italian: glicine (it) m
• Japanese: 藤 (ja) (フジ, ふじ, fuji)
• Korean: 등나무 (ko) (deungnamu)
• Persian: پیچ گلیسین, گل ویستریا
• Polish: glicynia (pl) f, słodlin m, wisteria (pl) f
• Portuguese: wisteria f, glicínia (pt) f
• Romanian: glicină (ro) f
• Russian: глици́ния (ru) f (glicínija), висте́рия (ru) f (vistérija)
• Slovak: vistéria f
• Spanish: wisteria f, glicina (es) f, glicinia (es) f
• Swedish: blåregn (sv) n
• Thai: วิสเทียเรีย (wîs-tiia-riia), วีสเตียเรีย (wîis-tiia-riia), ฟูจิ (fuu-jì)
• Turkish: salkım (tr), mor salkım (tr)

See also

• wistaria

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from taxonomic name Wisteria.

Noun

wisteria f (plural wisterias)

1. wisteria (woody climbing vine of the genus Wisteria)

   Synonym: glicínia

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from taxonomic name Wisteria.

Noun

wisteria f (plural wisterias)

1. wisteria (woody climbing vine of the genus Wisteria)

   Synonyms: glicina, glicinia