ampelopsis

[ am-puh-lop-sis ]

noun

1. any climbing, woody vine or shrub belonging to the genus Ampelopsis, of the grape family, having small greenish flowers and inedible berries.

ampelopsis

/ ˌæmpɪˈlɒpsɪs /

noun

1. any woody vine of the vitaceous genus Ampelopsis, of tropical and subtropical Asia and America

Word History and Origins

Origin of ampelopsis¹

1803; < New Latin < Greek ámpel ( os ) grapevine + ópsis -opsis

Word History and Origins

Origin of ampelopsis¹

C19: from New Latin, from Greek ampelos grapevine

Example Sentences

Ampelopsis trailed over, but did not yet hide the great blocks of hand-hewn stone that in those old days had been set up for defence between the pale-face and the Indian.

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Outside mouldy walls were curtained with ampelopsis lace, while from a circular belfry between the original square rock chimneys, a deep-toned bell swung below a tall gilt cross, and uttered its holy message of peace to a troubled and tragic past.

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The ecclesiastical people were like the ampelopsis at Trinity: they were highly colored, but so inappropriate to Oxford, that they seemed almost vulgar.

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Michael turned round into the Broad where the fog made mysterious even the tea-tray gothic of Balliol, and Trinity with its municipal ampelopsis.

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First among these, of course, is Veitch's Ampelopsis, the finest of all deciduous climbers for walls, being self-supporting and changing to crimson in autumn.

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