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Trellis in the courtyard of the Wernberg monastery, Wernberg, Carinthia, Austria. A trellis (treillage) is an architectural structure, usually made from an open framework or lattice of interwoven or intersecting pieces of wood, bamboo or metal that is normally made to support and display climbing plants, especially shrubs. [1]
Rose Pergola at Kew Gardens, London A pergola covered by wisteria at a private home in Alabama Pergola type arbor. A pergola is most commonly an outdoor garden feature forming a shaded walkway, passageway, or sitting area of vertical posts or pillars that usually support crossbeams and a sturdy open lattice, often upon which woody vines are trained. [1]
Pergularia daemia, the trellis-vine, is a hispid, perennial vine in the family Asclepiadaceae, with an extensive range in the Old World tropics and subtropics. [ citation needed ] It has been used traditionally to treat a number of ailments.
Trellis (graph), a special kind of graph used in computer science; Trellis chart, a series or grid of small similar graphics or charts, allowing them to be easily compared; Trellis modulation or trellis coded modulation, in telecommunications; Trellis quantization, a method of improving data compression, often used in lossy video compression
The word espalier is French, coming from the Italian spalliera, meaning "something to rest the shoulder (spalla) against." [2] During the 17th century, the word initially referred only to the actual trellis or frame on which such a plant was trained to grow, but over time it has come to be used to describe both the practice and the plants themselves.
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Parra (Hebrew: גפן) is a Spanish, Portuguese, and also Jewish surname, meaning grapevine or trellis, [1] for example, a pergola.It is taken from the word meaning latticework and the vines raised on it.