wisteria

As a noun hysteria

is hysteria.

As a proper noun wisteria is

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As a proper noun wisteria

is .

As a noun mauve is

(historical) a bright purple synthetic dye.

As an adjective mauve is

having a pale purple colour.

As nouns the difference between wisteria and listeria

is that wisteria is any of several woody climbing vines, of the genus Wisteria, native to the East Asian countries of China, Korea, and Japan and the eastern United States while listeria is any rod-shaped, gram-positive bacterium, of the genus Listeria, especially those responsible for listeriosis.