Virginia creeper

English

Noun

Virginia creeper (usually uncountable, plural Virginia creepers)

1. A climbing plant (Parthenocissus quinquefolia).

   Synonym: American ivy

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 240:

     The same walls, when the Virginia creeper dies back in winter, show a date-mark of 1490.

Derived terms

• Virginia creeper sphinx

Translations

Parthenocissus quinquefolia

• Finnish: imukärhivilliviini
• French: vigne vierge (fr) f, vigne vierge à cinq folioles (fr) f
• Italian: vite vergine f
• Manx: aaer Virjeeney
• Navajo: láʼashdlaʼ
• Romanian: viță de Canada f, viță sălbatică (ro) f

Further reading

• Virginia creeper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia