vine
Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twiningAny plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.
» You don't get eggplants from a gourd vine.
Нельзя вырастить баклажаны на тыквенной лозе.
Meaning
5 sensesAny plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.
a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
Any plant the stem of which creeps along the ground.
A stem of such plants, especially when thick and rope-like; a liana.
(UK, especially)A climbing plant that produces grapes.
They picked the grapes off the vine.
Any plant of the genus Vitis.
Examples
119 sentencesYou don't get eggplants from a gourd vine.
ruНельзя вырастить баклажаны на тыквенной лозе.
Grapes grow on vines.
Do apples grow on trees, or vines?
Яблука ростуть на деревах чи на ліанах?
ruЯблоки растут на деревьях или на лианах?
There is a dense growth of vines in this forest.
У цьому лісі густо поросла лоза.
deIn diesem Wald gibt es einen dichten Rankenwuchs.
Pink vines in bloom cover the walls of the old building.
Рожеві лози в цвіту вкривають стіни старої будівлі.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English vyne, from Anglo-Norman vigne, from Vulgar Latin vīnia, from Latin vīnFrom Middle English vyne, from Anglo-Norman vigne, from Vulgar Latin vīnia, from Latin vīnea (“vines in a vineyard”), from vīneus (“related to wine”), from vīnum (“wine”), from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“vine, wine”), from *weh₁y- (“to twist, wrap”). Doublet of wine.
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