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Ampelopsis
Ampelopsis
See also: ampelopsis
Translingual
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Ampelopsis brevipedunculata
Proper noun
Ampelopsis f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Vitaceae – peppervines, porcelain berry, and other vines.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids - clades; Vitales - order; Vitaceae - family; Vitoideae - subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus): Ampelopsis cordata - type species; for other species see Ampelopsis at The Plant List
ampelopsis
ampelopsis
See also: Ampelopsis
English
Noun
ampelopsis (plural ampelopsises)
- A vine of the genus Ampelopsis
- 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 417:
- Elsewhere, again, might be seen the first awakening of this Maytime of the leaves, and those of an ampelopsis, a smiling miracle like a red hawthorn flowering in winter, had that very morning all ‘come out’, so to speak, in blossom.
- 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 417: