Jacob's ladder

Jacob's ladder
1. a ladder seen by Jacob in a dream, reaching from the earth to heaven. Gen. 28:12.
2. Naut.
a. Also called jack ladder, pilot ladder. a hanging ladder having ropes or chains supporting wooden or metal rungs or steps.
b. any ladderlike arrangement aloft other than one of rattled shrouds.

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▪ plant
also called  Greek Valerian,  
 any of about 25 species of the genus Polemonium of the family Polemoniaceae, native to temperate areas in North and South America and Eurasia. Many are valued as garden flowers and wildflowers. They have loose, spikelike clusters of drooping blue, violet, or white, funnel-shaped, five-petaled flowers and alternate, pinnately (featherlike) compound leaves.

      Polemonium caeruleum is native to European woodlands and mountains and widely grown as a garden flower. It can grow to 90 cm (3 feet) tall and has large blue or white flowers.

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