noun
1. climbing shrub with adhesive aerial roots having opposite leaves and small white flowers in terminal cymes; Himalayas to Taiwan and Japan
• Syn: ↑Schizophragma hydrangeoides
• Member Holonyms: ↑Schizophragma, ↑genus Schizophragma
2. deciduous climber with aerial roots having large flat flower heads
• Syn: ↑Hydrangea petiolaris
• Hypernyms: ↑hydrangea
• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Hydrangea
3. deciduous climber with aerial roots having white to creamy flowers in fairly flat heads
• Syn: ↑Hydrangea anomala
• Hypernyms: ↑hydrangea
• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Hydrangea
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noun1. : a climbing vine (Schizophragma hydrangeoides) of the family Saxifragaceae having flowers with only one style, the sterile marginal flowers in each cluster having only one sepal
2. : any of certain climbing plants of the related genus Hydrangea (especially H. petiolaris)
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a woody vine, Hydrangea anomala, of eastern Asia, having shiny, egg-shaped leaves and flat-topped white flower clusters, and climbing by aerial rootlets.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.