vine : Idioms & Phrases

Ab` er-de-vine" noun

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1. (Zoöl.) The European siskin (Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfinch.

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• noun vine with feathery leaves and white or pinkish flowers; sometimes placed in genus Fumaria
  climbing fumitory; Adlumia fungosa; Fumaria fungosa.
  

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Ar"bor vine`

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1. A species of bindweed.

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• noun woody perennial climbing plant with large ornamental seed pods that resemble balloons; tropical India and Africa and America
  heart pea; Cardiospermum halicacabum.
  

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• noun West Indian woody climber with spiny stems and numerous fragrant white flowers in panicles followed by small yellow to orange fruits
  Pereskia aculeata; Barbados gooseberry.
  

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• noun tropical African climbing plant having yellow flowers with a dark purple center
  black-eyed Susan; Thunbergia alata.
  

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• noun tropical African woody vine yielding calabar beans
  Physostigma venenosum.
  

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• . See Canary bird flower, under Canary bird.

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• noun a climber having flowers that are the color of canaries
  canarybird flower; canary creeper; Tropaeolum peregrinum.
  

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• noun a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh
  Cucumis melo cantalupensis; cantaloupe; cantaloup vine; cantaloup.
  

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• noun a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh
  Cucumis melo cantalupensis; cantaloupe; cantaloup vine; cantaloup.
  

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• noun Mexican evergreen climbing plant having large solitary funnel-shaped fragrant yellow flowers with purple-brown ridges in the throat
  cupflower; trumpet flower; Solandra guttata.
  

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• noun twining perennial vine having racemes of fragrant greenish flowers; western China to Russia
  Polygonum aubertii; China fleece vine; Russian vine.
  

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• noun hardy Chinese vine naturalized in United States and cultivated as an ornamental climber for its glossy heart-shaped cinnamon-scented leaves and in the tropics for its edible tubers
  Dioscorea batata; Chinese yam.
  

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• noun herb of tropical America having vanilla-scented flowers; climbs up trees
  climbing hempweed; Mikania scandens; wild climbing hempweed; climbing boneset.
  

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• noun common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes
  vinifera; Vitis vinifera; vinifera grape.
  

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• noun deciduous erect or spreading shrub with spiny branches and violet-purple flowers followed by orange-red berries; southeastern Europe to China
  Duke of Argyll's tea tree; Lycium barbarum; Lycium halimifolium.
  

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• noun prostrate or twining woody vine with small leathery leaves and umbels of red flowers; Australia and Tasmania
  Kennedia coccinea.
  

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• noun woody flowering vine of southern United States; stems show a cross in transverse section
  Bignonia capreolata; quartervine; cross vine; trumpet flower.
  

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• noun tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits
  Java pepper; cubeb; Piper cubeba.
  

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• noun a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit
  Cucumis sativus; cucumber.
  

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• noun tropical American annual climber having red (sometimes white) flowers and finely dissected leaves; naturalized in United States and elsewhere
  Ipomoea quamoclit; star-glory; Quamoclit pennata; Indian pink.
  

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• (Bot.), a climbing plant with red or white flowers (Ipotoea Quamoclit, formerly Quamoclit vulgaris).

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• noun evergreen woody twiner with large glossy leaves and showy corymbs of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers
  Beaumontia grandiflora; Nepal trumpet flower.
  

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• noun a tuberous twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish flowers and pods with four jagged wings; Old World tropics
  winged bean; Psophocarpus tetragonolobus; Manila bean; winged pea; goa bean.
  

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• noun any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds
  gourd.
  

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• noun any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
  grapevine; grape.
  

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• noun a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
  wild bean; Indian potato; Apios tuberosa; groundnut; Apios americana; potato bean.
  

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• noun any of several Australasian evergreen vines widely cultivated in warm regions for their large bright yellow single flowers
  guinea flower.
  

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• (Bot.), the climbing vine or stalk of the hop.

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• noun South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark
  Dioscorea elephantipes; tortoise plant; elephant's-foot; Hottentot bread vine.
  

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• noun South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark
  Dioscorea elephantipes; tortoise plant; elephant's-foot; Hottentot bread vine.
  

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• noun vigorous Philippine evergreen twining liana; grown for spectacular festoons of green flowers that resemble lobster claws
  emerald creeper; Strongylodon macrobotrys.
  

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• noun climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat
  kiwi; Actinidia deliciosa; Chinese gooseberry; Actinidia chinensis.
  

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• noun fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the southern United States
  Pueraria lobata; kudzu.
  

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• noun low-growing creeping perennial of Central America having deeply fringed white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Episcia
  Alsobia dianthiflora; Episcia dianthiflora.
  

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• noun leafless parasitic vine with dense clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers on orange-yellow stems that twine around clover or flax
  Cuscuta gronovii.
  

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• noun any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries
  boxthorn.
  

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• (Bot.), a climbing thorny vine (Lycium barbarum) of the Potato family.

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• noun any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers
  melon.
  

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• noun twining vine with hairy foliage and dark purplish-brown flowers
  Vincetoxicum negrum; Vincetoxicum hirsutum.
  

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• noun any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit
  passionflower.
  

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• . (Bot.) (a) Any plant which bears peas . (b) A kind of vetch or tare, common in the United States (Lathyrus Americana, and other similar species).

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• noun widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground
  peanut; Arachis hypogaea.
  

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• noun any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper
  true pepper.
  

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• noun hardy deciduous vine having large leaves and flowers with the calyx tube curved like the bowl of a pipe
  Dutchman's-pipe; Aristolochia durior; Aristolochia macrophylla.
  

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• noun vine of Costa Rica sparsely armed with hooklike spines and having large lilac-blue flowers
  giant potato creeper; Solanum wendlandii.
  
• noun copiously branched vine of Brazil having deciduous leaves and white flowers tinged with blue
  Solanum jasmoides.
  

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• noun perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit
  wild pumpkin; Cucurbita foetidissima; Missouri gourd; calabazilla; buffalo gourd; prairie gourd.
  

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• noun a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes
  Cucurbita pepo; autumn pumpkin; pumpkin.
  

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• noun woody flowering vine of southern United States; stems show a cross in transverse section
  Bignonia capreolata; quartervine; cross vine; trumpet flower.
  

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• noun a prostrate perennial of coastal sand dunes Florida to Texas
  Ipomoea pes-caprae; beach morning glory.
  

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• noun twining perennial vine having racemes of fragrant greenish flowers; western China to Russia
  Polygonum aubertii; China fleece vine; Russian vine.
  

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• (Bot.), a tropical climbing plant (Ipom&oe;a tuberosa) related to the morning-glory.

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• noun deciduous climber for arches and fences having ill-scented but interesting flowers and poisonous yellow fruits; cultivated for its dark shining foliage; southeastern Europe to Asia Minor
  Periploca graeca.
  

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• noun twining perennial vine having racemes of fragrant greenish flowers; western China to Russia
  Polygonum aubertii; China fleece vine; Russian vine.
  

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• noun ornamental vine of eastern Asia having yellow edible fruit and leaves with silver-white markings
  silvervine; Actinidia polygama.
  

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• noun tendril-climbing vine
  

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• noun any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits
  squash.
  

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• noun twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
  bittersweet; climbing bittersweet; waxwork; shrubby bittersweet; false bittersweet; Celastrus scandens; American bittersweet.
  

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• noun any of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruits; grown commercially for the mature fruit's dried fibrous interior that is used as a sponge
  rag gourd; dishcloth gourd; sponge gourd; luffa.
  

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• (Bot.), the plant which yields the strawberry.

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• noun any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden
  summer squash; Cucurbita pepo melopepo.
  

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• noun any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell
  muskmelon; Cucumis melo; sweet melon.
  

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• noun pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh
  Ipomoea batatas; sweet potato.
  

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• noun climbing Asiatic vine having long finely serrate leaves and racemes of white flowers followed by greenish-yellow edible fruit
  Actinidia arguta; bower actinidia.
  

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• noun a North American woody vine having pinnate leaves and large red trumpet-shaped flowers
  trumpet creeper; Campsis radicans.
  
• noun evergreen North American honeysuckle vine having coral-red or orange flowers
  Lonicera sempervirens; trumpet honeysuckle; coral honeysuckle; trumpet flower.
  

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• noun South American potato vine
  Uruguay potato; Solanum commersonii.
  

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• noun scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals
  leather flower; Clematis viorna; vase-fine.
  

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• (Bot.), a small kind of squash. Roger Williams.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of beetles which are injurious to the leaves or branches of the grapevine. Among the more important species are the grapevine fidia (see Fidia), the spotted Pelidnota (see Rutilian), the vine fleabeetle (Graptodera chalybea), the rose beetle (see under Rose), the vine weevil, and several species of Colaspis and Anomala.

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of beetles whose larvæ bore in the wood or pith of the grapevine, especially Sinoxylon basilare, a small species the larva of which bores in the stems, and Ampeloglypter sesostris, a small reddish brown weevil (called also vine weevil), which produces knotlike galls on the branches. (b) A clearwing moth (Ægeria polistiformis), whose larva bores in the roots of the grapevine and is often destructive.

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• noun desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers
  Fouquieria splendens; Jacob's staff; coachwhip; ocotillo.
  

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• an old and fruitless branch of a vine. Obs. Holland.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of moths belonging to Alypia and allied genera, whose larvæ feed on the leaves of the grapevine.

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• (Zoöl.), a plant louse, esp. the phylloxera that injuries the grapevine.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of insect larvæ that are injurious to the grapevine.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of leaf hoppers which suck the sap of the grapevine, especially Erythroneura vitis. See Illust. of Grape hopper, under Grape.

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• (Zoöl.), the larva of any species of geometrid moths which feed on the leaves of the grapevine, especially Cidaria diversilineata.

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• (Zoöl.), the phylloxera.

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• noun small maple of northwestern North America having prostrate stems that root freely and form dense thickets
  Acer circinatum.
  

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• (Bot.), a fungous growth which forms a white, delicate, cottony layer upon the leaves, young shoots, and fruit of the vine, causing brown spots upon the green parts, and finally a hardening and destruction of the vitality of the surface. The plant has been called Oidium Tuckeri, but is now thought to be the conidia-producing stage of an Erysiphe.

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• (Bot.), a plant named in the Bible (Deut. xxxii. 32), now thought to be identical with the apple of Sodom. See Apple of Sodom, under Apple.

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• (Zoöl.), a small black sawfiy (Selandria vitis) whose larva feeds upon the leaves of the grapevine. The larvæ stand side by side in clusters while feeding.

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• (Zoöl.), the larva of the vine sawfly.

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• noun slender arboreal snake found from southern Arizona to Bolivia
  

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• (Bot.), a climbing plant (Cissus acida) related to the grapevine, and having acid leaves. It is found in Florida and the West Indies.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of hawk moths. The larvæ feed on grapevine leaves.

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• . (Zoöl.) See Vine borer (a) above, and Wound gall, under Wound.

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Vine"-clad` adjective

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1. Covered with vines.

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• (Zoöl.), a small moth (Desmia maculalis) whose larva makes a nest by rolling up the leaves of the grapevine. The moth is brownish black, spotted with white.

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Wa"ter vine`

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1. (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Phytocrene, climbing shrubs of Asia and Africa, the stems of which are singularly porous, and when cut stream with a limpid potable juice.

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• noun an African melon
  watermelon; Citrullus vulgaris.
  

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• noun annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous
  Solanum tuberosum; white potato; potato.
  

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• noun tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato
  man-of-the-earth; scammonyroot; wild potato vine; Ipomoea panurata; manroot; Ipomoea fastigiata.
  

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• noun tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato
  man-of-the-earth; scammonyroot; wild potato vine; Ipomoea panurata; manroot; Ipomoea fastigiata.
  

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• noun any of a variety of muskmelon vines having fruit with a smooth white rind and white or greenish flesh that does not have a musky smell
  honeydew melon; Cucumis melo inodorus; winter melon; Persian melon.
  

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• (Bot.), the white bryony.

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