vine (vin)

[ fem. of vine us, of or pertaining to wine, ture. 6758 I have seen great trees covered with single vines , and those vines almost hid with the grapes. Beverley, Virginia, iv. 15. 2. 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. The mock-cranberry's red-berried creeping vine. The Century, XXVI. 643. Alleghany vine, climbing fumitory, Adlumia cirrhosa. -Harvey's vine. See Sarcopetalum. - India-rubber vine. See india- rubber. Isle-of-Wight vine. See Ta mus. Mexican vine. Same as Madeira - vine. Milk vine. (a) See Periploca. (b) A plant of Jamaica, Forste ronia floribunda of the Apocynaceæ, yielding an excellent caoutchouc.-Red-bead vine, Abrus pre cat or i us. See Abrus . genus Artha Scrub vine an Australian plant of the great le parasites with filiform or wiry twining stems resembling dodder. Though anomalous in habit, the genus is cla ed in the Laurineæ on account of the structure of the flowers. - Seven-year vine, a plant of the morning-glory kind, Ipomæa tuberosa, widely diffused through the tropics, It has a very large tuber, and climbs to the top of high trees; the flowers are 2 inches long, bright-yellow. Also ish arbor- vine. - Sorrel vine. See sorrel-vine. - Spanish arbor-vine. Same as seven - year vine. - To dwell under one's vine and fig-tree. See dwell. - Vine bark-louse. (a) Pulvinar i a vitis, a large coccid with large white egg sac, common on the vine Europe. (b) Asp idiot us uvæ, a small, round, inconspicuous scale occurring on grape canes in the United States; also, A. vitis, a closely allied species occurring in Europe. - Vine cidaria. Same as vine inch-worm.-Vine colaspis, a leaf-beetle, Colaspis brun nea, which feeds upon the foliage of the vine, and pa es its larval state at the roots of the strawberry. Compare cut under Colaspis. - Vine fidia, a small brown leaf-beetle, Fidia longipes ( viticida of Walsh), which feeds on the leaves of the vine, and is an especial pest in Mi ouri and Kentucky. See Fidia. - Vine flea-beetle, one of the jumping leaf-beetles, Haltica chalybea, which infests the impinge vine gallouse the best ground form ( gallicola ) of the grape-vine phylloxera. Vine inch-worm, the larva of Cidaria divers i line at a, a geometrid moth. The larva is reddish in color, and 14 inches in length when full-grown; it feeds upon the leaves of the grape. Also called grape web - worm, vine cidaria, and vine measuring - worm. See cut under Cidaria. - Vine leaf-folder. See Desmia. - Vine leaf-gall, any gall formed upon the leaves of the vine. Especially - ( a ) The trumpet grape-gall of Cecidomyia vitis- viticola, a small, elongate, conical reddish gall, of an inch long. (b) The grape-vine filbert-gall of Cecidomyia vitis-coryloides, a rounded ma of galls 1 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. (c) The grape-vine tomato-gall of Lasi opter a vitis, a ma of irregular succulent swellings on the leaf-stalks of the vine, yellowish-green with rosy cheeks, or sometimes entirely red. (d) 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. (e) The leaf-gall of the above-ground form of Phylloxera vastatrix. - Vine leafhopper. See leaf - hopper and Erythron eur a. - Vine leaf roller. Same as vine leaf - folder.- Vine measuring worm. Same as vine inch- worm. - Vine of Sodom, a plant referred to in Deut. xxxii. 32, thought to have been the colocynth, which may also have been the "wild gourd" of 2 Ki. iv. 89. - Vine procris, Procris american a. See Procris (with cut). - Vine root-borer, any insect which bores into the roots of the vine. (a) The broad-necked Prionus lati coll is, or the tile-horned P. imbricornis. See Prionus, and cut under Phytophaga. (b) Sesia pol ist i form is, a small hornet-moth whose larva bores in the roots of the vine. Vine saw-fly, a saw-fly common in the United States, Blennoсатра рудтӕа (formerly known as Selan dria vitis ), whose larvæ feed in company on the leaves of the vine, like those of the vine procris. - White vine, the bryony, Bryonia dioica; also, the traveler's joy, Clematis Vitalba. [Old or prov. Eng.] - Wild vine. (a) Same as white vine; also, the black bryony, Tamus communis. (b) Vitis Labrusca, the northern fox-grape of America. See Vitis. -Wonga-wonga vine. See Tecoma. -Wood-vine, the bryony. (See also cro -vine, cypre -vine, quarter vine, silk-vine, silver-vine, squaw-vine, staff -vine, strainer vine, etc.)