vine

Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.

Noun

  1. Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.

    Synonyms: climber

  2. Any plant the stem of which creeps along the ground.
  3. A stem of such plants, especially when thick and rope-like; a liana.
    • This was a full-on jungle, full of all kinds of creepy things - snakes, spiders. They expected Tarzan to come swinging by on a vine. - 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
    • I could have easily been in the Congo. Trees, Tarzan-like vines, creepy crawlies, spiders and more spiders. - 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 189:
  4. A climbing plant that produces grapes.
    • They picked the grapes off the vine.
    • Irám indeed is gone with all its Rose, And Jamshýd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows; But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields, And still a Garden by the Water blows. - 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of...

    Synonyms: grapevine winetree

  5. Any plant of the genus Vitis.

Origin

From Middle English vīne, from Anglo-Norman vigne, from Vulgar Latin vīnia, from Latin vīnea (“vines in a vineyard”), from vīneus (“related to wine”), from vīnum (“wine”), from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“vine, wine”), from *weh₁y- (“to twist, wrap”). Doublet of wine.

Forms

vines

Hyponyms

liana bine

Related

provine vigneron vignette vignoble vinatorian vinea vineal vineatic viner vinet viny wine wine#Related terms kudzu liana scrambler twiner

Derived

Alamo vine Alleghany vine Allegheny vine American Vine apricot vine arbor vine balloon vine bamboo vine Barbados gooseberry vine bean vine bell vine birdvine bitter vine black-eyed Susan vine black vine weevil blaspheme-vine blaspheme vine blue vine bower vine buckwheat vine Burdekin vine cacoon vine calabar-bean vine calabash vine