vine
noun
any plant having a long, slender stem that trails or creeps on the ground or climbs by winding itself about a support or holding fast with tendrils or claspers.
vinelike
-
a word derived from
vine.
Example Sentences
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A few steps away was a townhouse where vinelike plants dangled over the garage door.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2015
To celebrate the Tour, Schiller was displaying three fantastical bikes by metal artist Victor Sonna that look like they’d ridden off a Dali painting, with crazy curves and vinelike handlebars.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2015
Some of the seaweeds look like lace or snow crystals, some are ferny and vinelike, while others beckon like mermaids bearing feathery tresses.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2014
From there, these neurons extend vinelike projections called axons up through the brain and down into the spinal column.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here was this beautiful vinelike shrub gladly growing on a slope that had been forsaken by all other plants.
From Wild Life on the Rockies by Enos Abijah Mills
