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LOVE VINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does love vine mean?
• LOVE VINE (noun)
The noun LOVE VINE has 1 sense:
1. leafless parasitic vine with dense clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers on orange-yellow stems that twine around clover or flax
Familiarity information: LOVE VINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Leafless parasitic vine with dense clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers on orange-yellow stems that twine around clover or flax
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cuscuta gronovii; love vine
Hypernyms ("love vine" is a kind of...):
dodder (a leafless annual parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta having whitish or yellow filamentous stems; obtain nourishment through haustoria)
Holonyms ("love vine" is a member of...):
Cuscuta; genus Cuscuta (genus of twining leafless parasitic herbs lacking chlorophyll: dodder)
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