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noun. A weak-stemmed plant that derives its support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface.

noun. The stem of such a plant.

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noun. A grapevine.

noun. Grapevines considered as a group.

intransitive verb. To form or develop like a vine.

noun. A climbing plant with a woody stem, the fruit of which is known as the grape; a grape-vine: often called specifically the vine. It is of the genus Vitis, and of numerous species and varieties, the primary species being the V. vinifera of the Old World. See grape and Vitis.

noun. Any plant with a long slender stem that trails on the ground, or climbs and supports itself by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing any fixed thing with its tendrils or claspers: as, the hop-vine; the vines of melons.

noun. A plant of Jamaica, Forsteronia floribunda of the Apocynaceæ, yielding an excellent caoutchouc

noun. Aspidiotus uvæ, a small, round, inconspicuous scale occurring on grapecanes in the United States; also. A. vitis, a closely allied species occurring in Europe.

noun. The grape-vine filbert-gall of Cecidomyia vitis-coryloides, a rounded mass of galls 1½ or 2 inches in diameter, springing from a common center, and composed of from ten to forty woolly greenish galls, the larger ones the size and shape of a filbert

noun. The grape-vine tomato-gall of Lasioptera vitis, a mass of irregular succulent swellings on the leaf-stalks of the vine, yellowish-green with rosy cheeks, or sometimes entirely red.

noun. The grape-vine apple-gall of Cecidomyia vitis-pomum, a globular, fleshy, greenish gall, nearly an inch in diameter, attached by a rough base to the stem of the vine

noun. The leaf-gall of the above-ground form of Phylloxera vastatrix.

noun. Sesia polistiformis, a small hornet-moth whose larva bores in the roots of the vine.

noun. Vitis Labrusca, the northern fox-grape of America. See Vitis.

noun. Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.

noun. Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper

noun. a small kind of squash.

noun. any one of several species of beetles which are injurious to the leaves or branches of the grapevine. Among the more important species are the grapevine fidia (see Fidia), the spotted Pelidnota (see Rutilian), the vine fleabeetle (Graptodera chalybea), the rose beetle (see under Rose), the vine weevil, and several species of Colaspis and Anomala.

noun. A clearwing moth (Ægeria polistiformis), whose larva bores in the roots of the grapevine and is often destructive.

noun. an old and fruitless branch of a vine.

noun. any one of several species of moths belonging to Alypia and allied genera, whose larvæ feed on the leaves of the grapevine.

noun. a plant louse, esp. the phylloxera that injuries the grapevine.

noun. any one of numerous species of insect larvæ that are injurious to the grapevine.

noun. any one of several species of leaf hoppers which suck the sap of the grapevine, especially Erythroneura vitis. See Illust. of Grape hopper, under Grape.

noun. the larva of any species of geometrid moths which feed on the leaves of the grapevine, especially Cidaria diversilineata.

noun. a small moth (Desmia maculalis) whose larva makes a nest by rolling up the leaves of the grapevine. The moth is brownish black, spotted with white.

noun. the phylloxera.

noun. a fungous growth which forms a white, delicate, cottony layer upon the leaves, young shoots, and fruit of the vine, causing brown spots upon the green parts, and finally a hardening and destruction of the vitality of the surface. The plant has been called Oidium Tuckeri, but is now thought to be the conidia-producing stage of an Erysiphe.

noun. a plant named in the Bible (Deut. xxxii. 32), now thought to be identical with the apple of Sodom. See Apple of Sodom, under Apple.

noun. a small black sawfiy (Selandria vitis) whose larva feeds upon the leaves of the grapevine. The larvæ stand side by side in clusters while feeding.

noun. the larva of the vine sawfly.

noun. a climbing plant (Cissus acida) related to the grapevine, and having acid leaves. It is found in Florida and the West Indies.

noun. any one of several species of hawk moths. The larvæ feed on grapevine leaves.

noun. See Vine borer (a) above, and Wound gall, under Wound.

noun. the climbing plant that produces grapes

noun. any plant of the genus Vitis

noun. by extension, any similar climbing or trailing plant

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

""Burdened vine" seems a trifle obscure -- why _burdened vine_?"

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