maiden's honesty

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Etymology

honesty, in the obsolete sense of "chastity".

Noun

maiden's honesty (uncountable)

  1. A plant of the species Clematis vitalba, evergreen clematis, a vine, native to the chalk and limestone soils of Britain, often considered invasive and noxious elsewhere.

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