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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Virginia creeper
 常春藤(植物)

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Vir·gin·i·a n. One of the States of the United States of America.  -- a. Of or pertaining to the State of Virginia.
 Virginia cowslip Bot., the American lungwort (Mertensia Virginica).
 Virginia creeper Bot., a common ornamental North American woody vine (Ampelopsis quinquefolia), climbing extensively by means of tendrils; -- called also woodbine, and American ivy. [U. S.]
 Virginia fence. See Worm fence, under Fence.
 Virginia nightingale Zool., the cardinal bird.  See under Cardinal.
 Virginia quail Zool., the bobwhite.
 Virginia reel, an old English contradance; -- so called in the United States. --Bartlett.
 Virginia stock. Bot. See Mahon stock.
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Wood·bine n.  Bot. (a) A climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (Lonicera Periclymenum); the honeysuckle.  (b) The Virginia creeper.  See Virginia creeper, under Virginia.  [Local, U. S.]
 Beatrice, who even now
 Is couched in the woodbine coverture.   --Shak.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Virginia creeper
      n : common North American vine with compound leaves and
          bluish-black berrylike fruit [syn: American ivy, woodbine,
           Parthenocissus quinquefolia]