Vine

/vaɪn/ · noun

Meaning

Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining..

Definitions by Sense

1. Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.
2. Any plant the stem of which creeps along the ground.
3. A stem of such plants, especially when thick and rope-like; a liana.
4. (especially UK) A climbing plant that produces grapes.
5. Any plant of the genus Vitis.

Example Sentences

This was a full-on jungle, full of all kinds of creepy things - snakes, spiders. They expected Tarzan to come swinging by on a vine.

I could have easily been in the Congo. Trees, Tarzan-like vines, creepy crawlies, spiders and more spiders.

They picked the grapes off the vine.

Irám indeed is gone with all its Rose, And Jamshýd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows; But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields, And still a Garden by the Water blows.

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