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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 or liane , name for any climbing plant that roots in the ground. The term is most often used for the woody vines that form a characteristic part of tropical rain-forest vegetation; they are sometimes also called bushropes or simply vines.
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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
A plant whose stem is not self-supporting.

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


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Garden arbors give your vined plants a secure place to grow.
Yet just the other day, I saw a landscape where it had vined its way to the top of a 4-foot xylosma hedge.
It was these wrinkle-seeded peas, vined in the fields more than any other single product, which established the frozen food industry in the UK.
 
 
 
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