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clematis noun. M16.
[Latin (also, periwinkle) from Greek klematis, from klema vine-branch.]
A plant of the large genus Clematis of the buttercup family, with a showy calyx and no corolla, and seed-vessels often with a feathery style, most species being woody climbing shrubs, as traveller's joy, C. vitalba; esp. any of the numerous cultivated varieties.