vine
- 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.
- the stem of any such plant.
- a grape plant.
Origin of vine
Related Words for vines
creeperExamples from the Web for vines
Contemporary Examples of vines
She hymned the delights of Twitter (where she had 2.15 million followers) and Vines.
When Giuseppe arrived in the valley, apple orchards were the cash crop, not vines.
A riot of leaves walls off a bend in the river, a curtain of vines cascades from impossibly tall mango trees.
The path for our group of six is being carved through tangles of vines and vegetation one machete hack at a time.
Which begs the question: Why is Mohler hyper-focusing on Vines now?
Historical Examples of vines
The moon came up after awhile, and streamed in through the vines of the porch.
The Little ColonelAnnie Fellows Johnston
The muses, like vines, may be pruned, but not with a hatchet.
Joseph Andrews, Vol. 2Henry Fielding
Homer pictures the youths and the maidens pressing the vines together.
The Truth About WomanC. Gasquoine Hartley
I plunged into the avenue of the vines leading to the grotto.
A Hero of Our TimeM. Y. Lermontov
Fruit trees, Turkey corn, vines, and flax flourished in luxuriance.
Vivian GreyEarl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
vine
- any of various plants, esp the grapevine, having long flexible stems that creep along the ground or climb by clinging to a support by means of tendrils, leafstalks, etc
- the stem of such a plant
Word Origin for vine
Vine
- Barbara. See (Ruth) Rendell
Word Origin and History for vines
vine
c.1300, from Old French vigne, from Latin vinea "vine, vineyard," from vinum "wine," from PIE *win-o-, from an Italic noun related to words for "wine" in Greek, Armenian, Hittite, and non-Indo-European Georgian and West Semitic (cf. Hebrew yayin, Ethiopian wayn); probably ultimately from a lost Mediterranean language word *w(o)in- "wine." The European grape vine was imported to California via Mexico by priests in 1564.
Idioms and Phrases with vines
vine
see clinging vine; wither on the vine.