Vine, n.

n. [Lat. vinum, wine, grapes, vinea, a vine, fr. vineus, belonging to wine; Fr. vigne, It. vigna. Cf. WINE.] (Bot.) (a.) The plant from which wine is made; the woody, climbing plant, that produces grapes, of the genus Vitis, and of a great number of varieties. (b.) 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 any fixed thing with its tendrils or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine, the bean vine, the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.

And one went into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds. 2 Kings iv. 39.

There shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig-tree. Jer. viii. 13.