Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The twin-flower, Linnæa borealis.
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Examples
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"You don't think that anybody would have been so utterly idiotic as to call me after a ground-vine -- a vegetable?" she continued petulantly.
A Ward of the Golden Gate Bret Harte 1869
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Glen; the trees stood high and haughty, feeling their living sap; the industrious earth beneath was as a weaver's loom, with a gorgeous carpet on it, whereof the ground-vine tendrils formed the warp and woof, and the living flowers the figures.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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The wood was green as mosses of the Icy Glen; the trees stood high and haughty, feeling their living sap; the industrious earth beneath was as a weaver's loom, with a gorgeous carpet on it, whereof the ground-vine tendrils formed the warp and woof, and the living flowers the figures.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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It was a wondrous sight. the wood was green as mosses of the icy Glen; the trees stood high and haughty, feeling their living sap; the industrious earth beneath was as a weaver's loom, with a gorgeous carpet on it, whereof the ground-vine tendrils formed the warp and woof, and the living flowers the figures.
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Glen; the trees stood high and haughty, feeling their living sap; the industrious earth beneath was as a weaver’s loom, with a gorgeous carpet on it, whereof the ground-vine tendrils formed the warp and woof, and the living flowers the figures.
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a low ground-vine, not dissimilar to a species of that vegetable usual to warm climates.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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