traveler's-joy

noun

plural traveler's-joys

: any of several climbing plants of the genus Clematis

especially : a vigorous woody climber (C. vitalba) of Europe and the Mediterranean region with fragrant greenish white flowers borne in axillary panicles in summer and autumn compare old-man's beard, virgin's bower

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