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Pergola

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An arbor or a passageway of columns supporting a roof of trelliswork on which climbing plants are trained to grow.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A framework in the form of a passageway of columns that supports a trelliswork roof; used to support and train climbing plants

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Lit., an arbor or bower

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A kind of arbor; a sort of balcony.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a framework that supports climbing plants

Word Usage

"Well, often what you'll see in a pergola is a lot more lattice going in closer together and going perpendicular to that, creating the surface for the growing vine and to block sun, of course."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

framework

Hyponym

grape arbour grape arbor

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Agricola Angola Apalachicola Canola Coppola Ebola Hispaniola Hizbollah Lola Loyola

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

treillage pigpen tendril romboy arbor smilax trellis linchpin aviary axletree