grape-vines

A parasitic plant that grows from the trailing stems of wild grape-vines Tetrastigma spp.

Kinabalu Park, Malaysia 2008

Cotton-wood trees were green and bright, aspens shivered in gold tremulousness, wild grape-vines trailed their lemon-colored foliage along the ground, and the Virginia creeper hung its crimson sprays here and there, lightening up green and gold into glory.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

There are great numbers of wild grape-vines growing in this quarter; indeed, they abound every where along the banks of the

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

When I first paddled a boat on Walden, it was completely surrounded by thick and lofty pine and oak woods, and in some of its coves grape-vines had run over the trees next the water and formed bowers under which a boat could pass.

Walden 2004

All sorts of fruit-trees and grape-vines yield their fruit twice in each year, without any labor or irrigation being bestowed on them.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

They tramped gayly along, over decaying logs, through tangled underbrush, among solemn monarchs of the forest, hung from their crowns to the ground with a drooping regalia of grape-vines.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2003

Yet here were the remains of grandeur: a terrace, where fair dames and gentle cavaliers may once have walked; a fish-pond and ruined garden, with grape-vines and date-bearing palm-trees.

The Alhambra 2002

On that side of the road where the brook entered the wood, a group of oaks and chestnuts, matted thick with wild grape-vines, threw a cavernous gloom over it.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

Yet here were the remains of grandeur: a terrace, where fair dames and gentle cavaliers may once have walked; a fish-pond and ruined garden, with grape-vines and date-bearing palm-trees.

The Alhambra 2002

Thick wisteria and woody grape-vines protected them from the chill of the clear November night.

The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983