'Traveler's joy' definitions:
Definition of 'traveler's joy'
(from WordNet)
noun
Vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn [syn: traveler's joy, traveller's joy, old man's beard, Clematis vitalba]
Definition of 'Traveler's joy'
From: GCIDE
- Traveler \Trav"el*er\, n. [Written also traveler.]
- 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Mach.) A traveling crane. See under Crane. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Spinning) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Naut.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon. [1913 Webster]
- Traveler's joy (Bot.), the Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant with white flowers.
- Traveler's tree. (Bot.) See Ravenala. [1913 Webster]