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vine
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vine, climbing plant climbing plant, any plant that in growing to its full height requires some support. Climbing plants may clamber over a support (climbing rose), twine up a slender support (hop, honeysuckle), or grasp the support by special processes such as adventitious aerial roots
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 or trailing plant. The grape grape, common name for the Vitaceae, a family of mostly climbing shrubs, widespread in tropical and subtropical regions and extending into the temperate zones. The woody vines, or lianas, climb by means of tendrils, which botanically are adaptations of terminal buds.
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 is often called "the vine." See also liana liana (lēä`nə) or liane
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vine

Plant whose stem requires support and that climbs by tendrils or twining or creeps along the ground, or the stem of such a plant. Examples include bittersweet, most grapes, some honeysuckles, ivy, lianas, and melons.


vine
1. any of various plants, esp the grapevine, having long flexible stems that creep along the ground or climb by clinging to a support by means of tendrils, leafstalks, etc.
2. the stem of such a plant

vine [vīn]
(botany)
A plant having a stem that is too flexible or weak to support itself.

vine
gives nourishment to branches or followers. [Christian Symbolism: Appleton, 107; N.T.: John 15:5]
See : Christ


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