vine

«vine» in Mova's school dictionary: a plant with a long, thin, bendy stem that climbs up… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a vine, vines)

meaning for a pupil

1) A vine is a plant with a long, thin, bendy stem that climbs up walls, fences or trees, or spreads along the ground. tree →

2) A grapevine, the plant that grapes grow on. tree →

3) In the jungle, a vine is a long hanging plant stem that animals (and people in stories) can swing on. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons vines show how plants grow towards light and use other things for support; their curling stems are called tendrils. In everyday life you see vines on garden walls, trellises and fences (ivy, grapes, beans, pumpkins, melons). In stories, explorers and monkeys swing from vine to vine through the jungle. Phrases: «grapevine», «climbing vine», «hear it on the grapevine» (hear news as a rumour).

examples

• Ivy is a vine that climbs up the old brick wall. tree →
• Grapes grow in bunches on a vine. tree →
• Pumpkins grow on long vines that spread across the ground. tree →
• The monkey swung from one vine to the next. tree →
• Bean vines curl around the poles in our garden. tree →
• Vines use thin curly tendrils to hold on. tree →
• Don't pull the vine, or the whole plant may come down. tree →
• I heard on the grapevine that we're getting a new teacher. tree →
• The field was full of vines heavy with grapes. tree →

note

Countable: a vine, two vines. Not the same as «wine» (a drink made from grapes) — vine and wine sound alike but are different words. Some vines, like poison ivy, can give you an itchy rash, so do not touch plants you do not know. «To hear something on the grapevine» means to hear it as gossip, not from an official source.

In the corpora

• Rafflesia has no leaves, stems or roots of its own and lives inside a vine as a parasite.
• The Great Vine at Hampton Court Palace near London was planted in 1768 and still gives grapes.
• Example: a girl in Ohio gathers sticks for a campfire and spots a vine with three shiny leaves.
• Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a fountain; its branches run over the wall.
• a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «vine» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.