traveller's joy

traveller's joy

English

traveller's joy

Alternative forms

• traveler's joy (US)

Noun

traveller's joy (uncountable)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• (Clematis vitalba): lady's bower, old man's beard, virgin's bower

Translations

Clematis vitalba

Bulgarian: див клематис m (div klematis), повет m (povet) Greek: Ancient: ἀθραγένη f (athragénē), κληματίς f (klēmatís)

References

• traveller's joy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Clematis vitalba on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Clematis vitalba on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons