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What's The Definition Of Vine?
[n] A weak-stemmed plant that derives its support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
Synonyms | Synonyms for Vine: Related Terms | Find terms related to Vine: See Also | Actinidia arguta | Actinidia chinensis | Actinidia deliciosa | Actinidia polygama | Adlumia fungosa | allamanda | Allegheny vine | Amphicarpa bracteata | Amphicarpaea bracteata | Apios americana | Apios tuberosa | Aristolochia clematitis | Asparagus asparagoides | Australian pea | Barbados gooseberry | Barbados-gooseberry vine | Beaumontia grandiflora | birthwort | black bindweed | black bryony | blue pea | Bomarea edulis | Bomarea salsilla | bonavist | bougainvillea | bower actinidia | briar | brier | briony | bryony | bullbrier | butterfly pea | calabar-bean vine | Canavalia ensiformis | Canavalia gladiata | Carolina jasmine | catbrier | Centrosema virginianum | Chinese gooseberry | clematis | climbing boneset | climbing corydalis | climbing fumitory | climbing hemp-vine | climbing hempweed | Clitoria mariana | Clitoria turnatea | common ivy | confederate jasmine | coral pea | Corydalis claviculata | Delairea odorata | Derris elliptica | derris root | Dioscorea elephantipes | Dioscorea paniculata | Dipogon lignosus | dishcloth gourd | Dolichos lablab | Dolichos lignosus | earthnut pea | earth-nut pea | Easter lily vine | Egyptian bean | elephant's-foot | English ivy | evening trumpet flower | everlasting pea | Fumaria claviculata | Fumaria fungosa | Gelsemium sempervirens | German ivy | giant stock bean | goa bean | goa bean vine | gourd | gourd vine | greenbrier | groundnut | groundnut vine | Hardenbergia comnptoniana | heath pea | Hedera helix | hog peanut | hop | hops | horsebrier | Hottentot bread vine | Hottentot's bread vine | hyacinth bean | Indian bean | Indian potato | ivy | jack bean | jellow jessamine | kiwi | kiwi vine | kudzu | kudzu vine | Lablab purpureus | Lathyrus odoratus | Lathyrus tuberosus | luffa | Manila bean | Mikania scandens | moonseed | Nepal trumpet flower | Pachyrhizus erosus | Pachyrhizus tuberosus | passionflower | passionflower vine | Pereskia aculeata | Physostigma venenosum | potato bean | Psophocarpus tetragonolobus | Pueraria lobata | rag gourd | salsilla | sarsaparilla | Senecio milkanioides | silver vine | silvervine | smilax | Smilax rotundifolia | sponge gourd | squash | squash vine | star jasmine | strainer vine | sweet pea | sweetpea | sword bean | Tamus communis | tara vine | tortoise plant | Trachelospermum jasminoides | tracheophyte | tuba root | tuberous vetch | vascular plant | vetchling | Western Australia coral pea | wild bean | wild climbing hempweed | wild peanut | wild yam | winged bean | winged pea | wistaria | wisteria | wonder bean | yam | yam bean | yam plant | yellow jasmine Vine In Webster's Dictionary \Vine\, n. [F. vigne, L. vinea a vineyard, vine from vineus
of or belonging to wine, vinum wine, grapes. See {Wine}, and
cf. {Vignette}.] (Bot.)
(a) Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.
(b) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender
stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs
by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing
anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper;
as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons,
squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
There shall be no grapes on the vine. --Jer.
viii. 13.
And one went out into the field to gather herbs,
and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild
gourds. --2 Kings iv.
89.
{Vine apple} (Bot.), a small kind of squash. --Roger
Williams.
{Vine beetle} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of
beetles which are injurious to the leaves or branches of
the grapevine. Among the more important species are the
grapevine fidia (see {Fidia}), the spotted {Pelidnota}
(see {Rutilian}), the vine fleabeetle ({Graptodera
chalybea}), the rose beetle (see under {Rose}), the vine
weevil, and several species of {Colaspis} and {Anomala}.
{Vine borer}. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any one of several species of beetles whose larv[ae]
bore in the wood or pith of the grapevine, especially
{Sinoxylon basilare}, a small species the larva of
which bores in the stems, and {Ampeloglypter
sesostris}, a small reddish brown weevil (called also
{vine weevil}), which produces knotlike galls on the
branches.
(b) A clearwing moth ({[AE]geria polistiformis}), whose
larva bores in the roots of the grapevine and is often
destructive.
{Vine dragon}, an old and fruitless branch of a vine. [Obs.]
--Holland.
{Vine forester} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of
moths belonging to {Alypia} and allied genera, whose
larv[ae] feed on the leaves of the grapevine.
{Vine fretter} (Zo["o]l.), a plant louse, esp. the phylloxera
that injuries the grapevine.
{Vine grub} (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of insect
larv[ae] that are injurious to the grapevine.
{Vine hopper} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of leaf
hoppers which suck the sap of the grapevine, especially
{Erythroneura vitis}. See Illust. of {Grape hopper}, under
{Grape}.
{Vine inchworm} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of any species of
geometrid moths which feed on the leaves of the grapevine,
especially {Cidaria diversilineata}.
{Vine-leaf rooer} (Zo["o]l.), a small moth ({Desmia
maculalis}) whose larva makes a nest by rolling up the
leaves of the grapevine. The moth is brownish black,
spotted with white.
{Vine louse} (Zo["o]l.), the phylloxera.
{Vine mildew} (Bot.), a fungous growth which forms a white,
delicate, cottony layer upon the leaves, young shoots, and
fruit of the vine, causing brown spots upon the green
parts, and finally a hardening and destruction of the
vitality of the surface. The plant has been called {Oidium
Tuckeri}, but is now thought to be the conidia-producing
stage of an {Erysiphe}.
{Vine of Sodom} (Bot.), a plant named in the Bible (--Deut.
xxxii. 32), now thought to be identical with the apple of
Sodom. See {Apple of Sodom}, under {Apple}.
{Vine sawfly} (Zo["o]l.), a small black sawfiy ({Selandria
vitis}) whose larva feeds upon the leaves of the
grapevine. The larv[ae] stand side by side in clusters
while feeding.
{Vine slug} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of the vine sawfly.
{Vine sorrel} (Bot.), a climbing plant ({Cissus acida})
related to the grapevine, and having acid leaves. It is
found in Florida and the West Indies.
{Vine sphinx} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of hawk
moths. The larv[ae] feed on grapevine leaves.
{Vine weevil}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Vine borer}
(a) above, and {Wound gall}, under {Wound}.
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