vitis

[Lat.=a vine.] 1. Bot . The typical genus of the tribe Vitese and the order Vitaceae. Calyx generally five-toothed; petals five, cohering at the tip, falling off without separating; stamens five; style wanting; berry two celled; cells four-seeded, the seeds often abortive. Climbing plants with tendrils opposite the leaves, which are either simple, undivided, or lobed, orare compound. Natives of Asia and North America. Vitis vinifera is the Vine (q. v.). V. indica , which grows in the west of the peninsula, from the Konkan southward, has a round fruit about as large as a currant. V. lanata , from the Him a lay as, ., has purple fruit the size of a pea. The leaves and young shoots of V. quadrangular is , another Indian species, are powdered and given by the Hindus in bowel complaints. Every part of V. setosa , also from India, is acrid, and the leaves toasted and oiled are applied in India to indolent tumors to bring on suppuration. 2. Palæobot .: A species. Vitisbritannica , is in the Bovey Tracey Oligocene (?) beds, and three others in the Miocene. ( Ethe ridge .) †vit-rě-a, s . pl . [Neuter pl. of Latin vitreus Zool .: An old synonym of Hexact in ell ide (q. v.). vit-re-ō, pref . [VITREOUS.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling gla . gla y, from vitrum =gla .] vitreo-electric, adj. Containing or exhibiting positive electricity (q. v.). vit-rě-oŭs, adj . [Latin vitreus, vitrius gla y, from vitrum =gla , prop. vidtrum =an instrument or material for seeing with, from video to see, Fr. vitré; Sp. & Port. vitreo.] 1. Of or pertaining to gla ; obtained from gla . 2. Consisting or composed of gla . 3. Resembling gla ; gla y. Used in describing the luster of various minerals and rocks.