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So they passed on to think of Dionysus (naming him at last from the brightness of the sky and the moisture of the earth) not merely as the soul of the vine, but of all that life in flowing things of which the vine is the symbol, because its most emphatic example.

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  1. noun A weak-stemmed plant that derives its support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface.
  2. noun The stem of such a plant.
  3. noun A grapevine.

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vīnea, from feminine of vīneus, of wine, from vīnum, wine.

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  1. from Middle English vine, vyne, vinyhe, vigne, from Old French vine, vigne, French vigne, a vine, = Spanish viña = Portuguese vinha, a vineyard, = Italian vigna, a vine, from Latin vinea, a vine (a grape-vine), also a vineyard, in military use a kind of pentice or mantlet, feminine of vineus, of or pertaining to wine, from vinum, wine: see wine.
 

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