VINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vine mean? 

• VINE (noun)
  The noun VINE has 1 sense:

1. a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface

  Familiarity information: VINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("vine" is a kind of...):

tracheophyte; vascular plant (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vine"):

China fleece vine; Polygonum aubertii; Russian vine; silver lace vine (twining perennial vine having racemes of fragrant greenish flowers; western China to Russia)

silverweed (any of various twining shrubs of the genus Argyreia having silvery leaves and showy purple flowers)

bindweed (any of several vines of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia having a twining habit)

convolvulus (any of numerous plants of the genus Convolvulus)

Bignonia capreolata; cross vine; quarter-vine; quartervine; trumpet flower (woody flowering vine of southern United States; stems show a cross in transverse section)

black-eyed Susan; black-eyed Susan vine; Thunbergia alata (tropical African climbing plant having yellow flowers with a dark purple center)

Euonymus fortunei radicans; Euonymus radicans vegetus; evergreen bittersweet (broad and bushy Asiatic twining shrub with pinkish fruit; many subspecies or varieties)

Celastric articulatus; Celastrus orbiculatus; Japan bittersweet; Japanese bittersweet; oriental bittersweet (ornamental Asiatic vine with showy orange-yellow fruit with a scarlet aril; naturalized in North America)

American bittersweet; bittersweet; Celastrus scandens; climbing bittersweet; false bittersweet; shrubby bittersweet; staff vine; waxwork (twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds)

soapberry vine (tendril-climbing vine)

boxberry; Mitchella repens; partridgeberry; twinberry (creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries)

dodder (a leafless annual parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta having whitish or yellow filamentous stems; obtain nourishment through haustoria)

wistaria; wisteria (any flowering vine of the genus Wisteria)

kudzu; kudzu vine; Pueraria lobata (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)

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

Pachyrhizus tuberosus; potato bean; yam bean (twining plant of Amazon basin having large edible roots)

Pachyrhizus erosus; yam bean (Central American twining plant with edible roots and pods; large tubers are eaten raw or cooked especially when young and young pods must be thoroughly cooked; pods and seeds also yield rotenone and oils)

earth-nut pea; earthnut pea; heath pea; Lathyrus tuberosus; tuberous vetch (European herb bearing small tubers used for food and in Scotland to flavor whiskey)

Lathyrus odoratus; sweet pea; sweetpea (climbing garden plant having fragrant pastel-colored flowers)

everlasting pea (any of several perennial vines of the genus Lathyrus)

vetchling (any of various small plants of the genus Lathyrus; climb usually by means of tendrils)

bonavist; Dolichos lablab; Egyptian bean; hyacinth bean; Indian bean; Lablab purpureus (perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos)

climber (a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants)

negro vine; Vincetoxicum hirsutum; Vincetoxicum negrum (twining vine with hairy foliage and dark purplish-brown flowers)

haoma; Sarcostemma acidum; soma (leafless East Indian vine; its sour milky juice formerly used to make an intoxicating drink)

Periploca graeca; silk vine (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)

hoya (any plant of the genus Hoya having fleshy leaves and usually nectariferous flowers)

Araujia sericofera; cruel plant (robust twining shrub having racemes of fragrant white or pink flowers with flat spreading terminal petals that trap nocturnal moths and hold them until dawn)

pepper vine; true pepper (any of various shrubby vines of the genus Piper)

American ivy; Parthenocissus quinquefolia; Virginia creeper; woodbine (common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit)

Boston ivy; Japanese ivy; Parthenocissus tricuspidata (Asiatic vine with three-lobed leaves and purple berries)

grape; grape vine; grapevine (any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries)

liana (a woody climbing usually tropical plant)

coral pea (any of various Australian climbing plants of the genus Kennedia having scarlet flowers)

cock's eggs; Salpichroa organifolia; Salpichroa rhomboidea (weedy vine of Argentina having solitary white flowers followed by egg-shaped white or yellow fruit)

giant potato creeper; potato vine; Solanum wendlandii (vine of Costa Rica sparsely armed with hooklike spines and having large lilac-blue flowers)

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

potato vine; Solanum jasmoides (copiously branched vine of Brazil having deciduous leaves and white flowers tinged with blue)

Solanum jamesii; wild potato (erect or spreading perennial of southwestern United States and Mexico bearing small pale brown to cream-colored tubers resembling potatoes)

Solanum commersonii; Uruguay potato; Uruguay potato vine (South American potato vine)

potato tree; Solanum crispum (hardy climbing shrub of Chile grown as an ornamental for its fragrant flowers; not a true potato)

alehoof; field balm; gill-over-the-ground; Glechoma hederaceae; ground ivy; Nepeta hederaceae; runaway robin (trailing European aromatic plant of the mint family having rounded leaves and small purplish flowers often grown in hanging baskets; naturalized in North America; sometimes placed in genus Nepeta)

morning glory (any of various twining vines having funnel-shaped flowers that close late in the day)

dichondra; Dichondra micrantha (a creeping perennial herb with hairy stems and orbicular to reniform leaves and small white to greenish flowers; used as a grass substitute in warm regions)

Adlumia fungosa; Allegheny vine; climbing fumitory; Fumaria fungosa (vine with feathery leaves and white or pinkish flowers; sometimes placed in genus Fumaria)

dishcloth gourd; luffa; rag gourd; sponge gourd; strainer vine (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)

briony; bryony (a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties)

squash; squash vine (any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits)

gourd; gourd vine (any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds)

black bindweed; black bryony; Tamus communis (common European twining vine with tuberous roots and cordate leaves and red berries)

Dioscorea paniculata; wild yam (having a rhizome formerly dried and used to treat rheumatism or liver disorders)

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

yam; yam plant (any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots)

climbing boneset; climbing hemp-vine; climbing hempweed; Mikania scandens; wild climbing hempweed (herb of tropical America having vanilla-scented flowers; climbs up trees)

Delairea odorata; German ivy; Senecio milkanioides (South African succulent evergreen twining climber with yellow flowers grown primarily as a houseplant for its foliage; sometimes placed in genus Senecio)

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

climbing corydalis; Corydalis claviculata; Fumaria claviculata (annual vine with decompound leaves and racemes of yellow and pink flowers)

Barbados-gooseberry vine; Barbados gooseberry; Pereskia aculeata (West Indian woody climber with spiny stems and numerous fragrant white flowers in panicles followed by small yellow to orange fruits)

bougainvillea (any of several South American ornamental woody vines of the genus Bougainvillea having brilliant red or purple flower bracts; widely grown in warm regions)

Aristolochia clematitis; birthwort (creeping plant having curving flowers thought to resemble fetuses; native to Europe; naturalized Great Britain and eastern North America)

common ivy; English ivy; Hedera helix; ivy (Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits)

confederate jasmine; star jasmine; Trachelospermum jasminoides (evergreen Chinese woody climber with shiny dark green leaves and intensely fragrant white flowers)

Beaumontia grandiflora; Easter lily vine; Nepal trumpet flower (evergreen woody twiner with large glossy leaves and showy corymbs of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers)

allamanda (a plant of the genus Allamanda having large showy funnel-shaped flowers in terminal cymes)

clematis (any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers)

moonseed (plant of the family Menispermaceae having red or black fruit with crescent- or ring-shaped seeds)

calabar-bean vine; Physostigma venenosum (tropical African woody vine yielding calabar beans)

Hardenbergia comnptoniana; Western Australia coral pea (vigorous climber of the forests of western Australia; grown for their dense racemes of attractive bright rose-purple flowers)

Australian pea; Dipogon lignosus; Dolichos lignosus (South African evergreen partly woody vine grown for its clusters of rosy purple flowers followed by edible pods like snap beans; also grown as green manure; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos)

Derris elliptica; derris root; tuba root (woody vine having bright green leaves and racemes of rose-tinted white flowers; the swollen roots contain rotenone)

blue pea; butterfly pea; Clitoria turnatea (vine of tropical Asia having pinnate leaves and bright blue flowers with yellow centers)

butterfly pea; Clitoria mariana (large-flowered wild twining vine of southeastern and central United States having pale blue flowers)

butterfly pea; Centrosema virginianum (large-flowered weakly twining or prostrate vine of New Jersey to tropical eastern North America, sometimes cultivated for its purple and white flowers)

Canavalia gladiata; sword bean (twining tropical Old World plant bearing long pods usually with red or brown beans; long cultivated in Orient for food)

Canavalia ensiformis; giant stock bean; jack bean; wonder bean (annual semi-erect bushy plant of tropical South America bearing long pods with white seeds grown especially for forage)

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

Amphicarpa bracteata; Amphicarpaea bracteata; hog peanut; wild peanut (vine widely distributed in eastern North America producing racemes of purple to maroon flowers and abundant (usually subterranean) edible one-seeded pods resembling peanuts)

semi-climber (a plant that tends to climb and on occasion can grow like a vine)

Carolina jasmine; evening trumpet flower; Gelsemium sempervirens; yellow jasmine; yellow jessamine (poisonous woody evergreen vine of southeastern United States having fragrant yellow funnel-shaped flowers)

briar; brier; bullbrier; catbrier; greenbrier; horse-brier; horse brier; Smilax rotundifolia (a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries)

sarsaparilla (any of various prickly climbing plants of the tropical American genus Smilax having aromatic roots and heart-shaped leaves)

Asparagus asparagoides; smilax (fragile twining plant of South Africa with bright green flattened stems and glossy foliage popular as a floral decoration)

Bomarea salsilla; salsilla (tropical vine having umbels of small purple flowers and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; Colombia)

Bomarea edulis; salsilla (tropical vine having pink-and-yellow flowers spotted purple and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; West Indies to northern South America)

hop; hops (twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer)

passionflower; passionflower vine (any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit)

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

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

 Context examples 

After having landed, they proceeded to search the country, parties going in different directions among the woods and vines.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She doesn't know us, she doesn't even talk about the flocks of green doves, as she calls the vine leaves on the wall.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Scientists know that shared parts of DNA create color patterns in some passion vine butterflies.

(Study reveals surprising amount of gene flow among butterfly species, National Science Foundation)

There too, remarked Alleyne, as they rode on again, that which seems to the eye to be dead is still full of the sap of life, even as the vines were.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Shrubs and vines were putting on fresh garbs of green.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

We had, on our way out, to cross a paved hall, with glass sides and roof, over which a vine was trained.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

An herbal remedy derived from the dried root of Dioscorea villosa, a perennial vine native to North America, Mexico and Asia.

(Dioscorea villosa Tuber, NCI Thesaurus)

The light drew them as if they were plants; the chemistry of the life that composed them demanded the light as a necessity of being; and their little puppet-bodies crawled blindly and chemically, like the tendrils of a vine.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

John no one thwarted, much less punished; though he twisted the necks of the pigeons, killed the little pea-chicks, set the dogs at the sheep, stripped the hothouse vines of their fruit, and broke the buds off the choicest plants in the conservatory: he called his mother old girl, too; sometimes reviled her for her dark skin, similar to his own; bluntly disregarded her wishes; not unfrequently tore and spoiled her silk attire; and he was still her own darling.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Uppercross was a moderate-sized village, which a few years back had been completely in the old English style, containing only two houses superior in appearance to those of the yeomen and labourers; the mansion of the squire, with its high walls, great gates, and old trees, substantial and unmodernized, and the compact, tight parsonage, enclosed in its own neat garden, with a vine and a pear-tree trained round its casements; but upon the marriage of the young 'squire, it had received the improvement of a farm-house elevated into a cottage, for his residence, and Uppercross Cottage, with its veranda, French windows, and other prettiness, was quite as likely to catch the traveller's eye as the more consistent and considerable aspect and premises of the Great House, about a quarter of a mile farther on.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)