Translingual

Ampelopsis brevipedunculata

Proper noun

Ampelopsis f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Vitaceae – peppervines, porcelain berry, and other vines.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids - clades; Vitales - order; Vitaceae - family; Vitoideae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Ampelopsis cordata - type species; for other species see Ampelopsis at The Plant List

English

Noun

ampelopsis ‎(plural ampelopsises)

1. A vine of the genus Ampelopsis
   • 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 417:

     Elsewhere, again, might be seen the first awakening of this Maytime of the leaves, and those of an ampelopsis, a smiling miracle like a red hawthorn flowering in winter, had that very morning all ‘come out’, so to speak, in blossom.