vine

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

The stem of such a plant.

A grapevine.

Grapevines considered as a group.

To form or develop like a vine.

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.

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.

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