wisteria
/wɪsˈtɛriə/
wisteria noun: 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.
Noun
wisteria (countable and uncountable, plural wisterias)
- 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.
- 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 view2019, “Electric Cross”, performed by Spiritbox - (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.”)2024 November, Sophie Gilbert, quoting Jilly Cooper, “The Silliest, Sexiest Show of the Year”, in The Atlantic
- I know it's typical of me to keep secrets to find my way back again
- Certain other woody plants that resemble those of Wisteria spp..
wisteria meaning in Tamil, Persian and Thai
wisteria in Tamil
- நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்
wisteria in Persian
- a genus of about ten species of woody climbing vines
- پیچ گلیسین, گل ویستریا
wisteria in Thai
- a genus of about ten species of woody climbing vines
- วิสเทียเรีย wîs-tiia-riia, วีสเตียเรีย wîis-tiia-riia, ฟูจิ fuu-jì
Forms of wisteria
| plural | wisterias |
|---|
Origin of wisteria
Borrowed from taxonomic name Wisteria.
Words formed from wisteria
- American wisteria
- Atlantic wisteria
- Chinese wisteria
- Japanese wisteria
- Mississippi wisteria
- silky wisteria
- summer wisteria
- swamp wisteria
- tree wisteria (Bolusanthus speciosus
- water wisteria
Phrases with wisteria
Questions about wisteria
- What does wisteria mean?
- Wisteria means 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.
- What is wisteria in Tamil?
- Wisteria in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Wisteria meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is wisteria?
- Wisteria is a noun.
- How do you pronounce wisteria?
- Wisteria is pronounced /wɪsˈtɛriə/ (US).
- What is the plural of wisteria?
- The plural of wisteria is wisterias.
Words near wisteria in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wisteria (page history and authors); wisteria (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-US-wisteria.wav.
Cite this entry: “wisteria.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wisteria. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.