fumitory : Idioms & Phrases


Climbing fumitory

  • noun vine with feathery leaves and white or pinkish flowers; sometimes placed in genus Fumaria
    Allegheny vine; Adlumia fungosa; Fumaria fungosa.
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  • (Bot.), the Alleghany vine (Adlumia cirrhosa); a biennial climbing plant with elegant feathery leaves and large clusters of pretty white or pinkish flowers looking like grains of rice.
Webster 1913

fumitory family

  • noun erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn
    Fumariaceae; family Fumariaceae.
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