vine

name

1. A surname.
2. An unincorporated community in Fountain County, Indiana, United States.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English vīne, 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.

1. Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.
2. Any plant the stem of which creeps along the ground.
3. A stem of such plants, especially when thick and rope-like; a liana.

   “This was a full-on jungle, full of all kinds of creepy things - snakes, spiders. They expected Tarzan to come swinging by on a vine.”

   “I could have easily been in the Congo. Trees, Tarzan-like vines, creepy crawlies, spiders and more spiders.”

4. A climbing plant that produces grapes.

   “They picked the grapes off the vine.”

   “Irám indeed is gone with all its Rose, And Jamshýd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows; But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields, And still a Garden by the Water blows.”

5. Any plant of the genus Vitis.