Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A weak-stemmed plant that derives its support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface.
- n. The stem of such a plant.
- n. A grapevine.
- n. Grapevines considered as a group: products of the vine.
- v. To form or develop like a vine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A climbing plant with a woody stem, the fruit of which is known as the grape; a grape-vine: often called specifically the vine. It is of the genus Vitis, and of numerous species and varieties, the primary species being the V. vinifera of the Old World. See grape and Vitis.
- n. Any plant with a long slender stem that trails on the ground, or climbs and supports itself by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing any fixed thing with its tendrils or claspers: as, the hop-vine; the vines of melons.
- n. A plant of Jamaica, Forsteronia floribunda of the Apocynaceæ, yielding an excellent caoutchouc
- n. Aspidiotus uvæ, a small, round, inconspicuous scale occurring on grapecanes in the United States; also. A. vitis, a closely allied species occurring in Europe.
- n. The grape-vine filbert-gall of Cecidomyia vitis-coryloides, a rounded mass of galls 1½ or 2 inches in diameter, springing from a common center, and composed of from ten to forty woolly greenish galls, the larger ones the size and shape of a filbert
- n. The grape-vine tomato-gall of Lasioptera vitis, a mass of irregular succulent swellings on the leaf-stalks of the vine, yellowish-green with rosy cheeks, or sometimes entirely red.
- n. The grape-vine apple-gall of Cecidomyia vitis-pomum, a globular, fleshy, greenish gall, nearly an inch in diameter, attached by a rough base to the stem of the vine
- n. The leaf-gall of the above-ground form of Phylloxera vastatrix.
- n. Sesia polistiformis, a small hornet-moth whose larva bores in the roots of the vine.
- n. Vitis Labrusca, the northern fox-grape of America. See Vitis.
Wiktionary
- n. the climbing plant that produces grapes
- n. any plant of the genus Vitis
- n. US by extension, any similar climbing or trailing plant
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.
- n. 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
WordNet 3.0
- n. a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
Etymologies
- Old French vigne, from Latin vinea (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vīnea, from feminine of vīneus, of wine, from vīnum, wine. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Burdened vine" seems a trifle obscure -- why _burdened vine_?”
“His remark that the term vine must refer to some plant of the habit of a vine is conclusive against the claims of all the plants hitherto identified with the vine of”
“The cane of the vine is then taken into the house, if it has been wintered outside, and carefully trained to the rafter, the part next the ground being still kept wrapped round with hay bands, and the hole stopped close round the stem, so as to prevent the vine receiving any check from the cold of the external air.”
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
“These produce natural arbours, rendered often still more compact by the assistance of an annual creeping plant which we call a vine, that never fails to entwine itself among their branches, and always produces a very desirable shade.”
“Good works are the children of the new nature, the products of our union with Christ, as the fruitfulness of the vine is the product of its union with the root.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
“The vine of Sodom always thought might refer to Cucumis calocynthis, which is bitter end powders inside; the term vine would scarcely be given to any but a trailing or other plant of the habit of a vine. ”
“The grape vine is climbing up the berry tree and the blackberry is having a pissing contest with something hideous from the neighbour's side of the fence about who has the biggest brambles.”
“I love anything with strawberies, but I agree with your grandma, that eating them straight from the vine is one of life's greatest pleasures!”
“One character hints that it might be that the vine is some sort of god that the Mayans have “sacrificed to” for hundreds of years, and this whole effort just comes off as racist.”
“The Ruins” by Scott Smith (Knopf, 2006) « The BookBanter Blog
“The orchid involved, Vanilla planifolia, grows as a thin vine twisting its way around host trees.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vine’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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• The bonhomous lynchpin - And other ...
plinth, starboard, bonhomie, bulkhead, brethren, gabardine, anon, lynchpin, vine, yoke, sequin, marigold and 12 more...
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food words
weetabix, blancmange, shandy, meringue, allspice, pavlova, quiche, caster sugar, suet, moonshine, turnip, swede and 93 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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The O.U.P. Junior Dictionary Death Row
Another news story about words being removed from a dictionary before their time. See also the list of words added to the dictionary.
carol, cracker, holly, ivy, mistletoe, dwarf, elf, goblin, abbey, aisle, altar, bishop and 137 more...
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lauren_inretrospective's list
words I adore....
ethereal, luminiscent, etiquette, surreal, plumage, feathery, vintage, jubilee, rouge, satin, fathom, height and 101 more...
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ideas out loud
bandwagon, middle, via, web, fly, thru, safety, thor, swoosh, top, network effect, matrix and 200 more...
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merfee's Words
supple, dichotomy, relish, rhapsody, pneumonoultramicr..., embrace, ishmael, ebullient, recalcitrant, elegy, char, lugubrious and 522 more...
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Bible names
noah, almighty, cain, abel, father, mother, israel, king, sanctuary, spirit, psalm, blessing and 236 more...
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Words!
quixotic, lugubrious, laconic, terse, diaphanous, truculent, solipsism, meretricious, recondite, salacious, avuncular, obdurate and 229 more...
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eloise's Words
embrace, perfect, imagine, dance, water, color, echo, hollow, sorrow, beauty, impossible, violet and 438 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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Demongering
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diablerie, grimoire, ouija, dybbuk, sciomancy, necromancy, cacodemon, fallen angel, choronzon, kokomo, demonology, lilith and 650 more...
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mplspingora's Words
truncated, sphagnum, woody, splendid, inordinate, folic, acid, you, foliate, genre, supplicate, marble and 47 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for vine.

Prolagus
(June hymn, by The Decemberists) Jan 19, 2011
sionnach Identify that vine!
sheepish
ox-like
bambi-esque
black as a crow
finchy
godlike
gutsy
antiseptic
gossipy
a vasoconstrictor
an alkaloid poison
a resident of Anjou
a lead pencil
high as a kite
a mineral
purplish
gorge-ous
brownish, like Bismarck
Jul 19, 2009
bilby
Even the vine-leaves shot with sun
have shadow leaves
pressed close on them.
Even the vine is hanging
ones that seem like twos:
a top leaf
on a shadow leaf, its corner slipped,
like invoices in duplicate
- Mimi Khalvati, 'Vine Leaves'. Jul 19, 2009