grape vine
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- noun
- /ɡreɪp vaɪn/
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- During the summer, we enjoy the shade provided by the lush grape vine in our backyard.
- wild grape vine
Examples
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In the vineyard, the grape vine twisted gracefully around the trellis, heavy with ripe grapes.
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Covering many of the trees and shrubs on this trail is a thick, woody vine called Muscadine grape vines.
Blog text (20) -
Grape vines hang in the small garden of the two-room stone house I'm in.
Blog text (12) -
Grape vines climb over porch posts and arbors in back.
Fiction book (1990) -
This fall, I get to rip out a grape vine that has graced our entrance arbor for a few years now.
Blog text (25) -
There's a grape vine.
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Momma and I watched him go each time, watched until the road took him deep into pine and cypress, the green of wild grape vines everywhere that swallowed him up.
Fiction book (1999) -
The grape vine produces sweet clusters of fruit that are often used to make wine.
Synonyms
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A climbing plant that grows clusters of grapes
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a vine that produces grapes' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'grape' (the fruit) with 'vine' (a climbing plant). This noun-noun composition is a regular, cross-linguistic pattern and is immediately predictable for a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Grape vine comes from a simple picture: a climbing vine covered in bunches of grapes, with the plant holding the fruit on long stems. So it means 'a climbing plant that produces grapes'.