资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Virgin \Vir"gin\, n. [L. virgo, -inis: cf. OF. virgine, virgene,
virge, vierge, F. vierge.]
1. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.
2. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual
indulgence. [Archaic] --Wyclif.
These are they which were not defiled with women;
for they are virgins. --Rev. xiv. 4.
He his flesh hath overcome; He was a virgin, as he
said. --Gower.
3. (Astron.) See {Virgo}.
4. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged
butterflies of the family {Lyc[ae]nid[ae]}.
5. (Zo["o]l.) A female insect producing eggs from which young
are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a
male; a parthenogenetic insect.
{The Virgin}, or {The Blessed Virgin}, the Virgin Mary, the
Mother of our Lord.
{Virgin's bower} (Bot.), a name given to several climbing
plants of the genus {Clematis}, as {C. Vitalba} of Europe,
and {C. Virginiana} of North America.
资料来源 : WordNet®
virgin's bower
n : common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over
other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy
white flowers [syn: {old man's beard}, {devil's darning
needle}, {Clematis virginiana}]