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winetree en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English wintre, variant of vyne-tre, from Old English wīntrēow, from Proto-West Germanic *wīnatreu, from Proto-Germanic *wīnatrewą, equivalent to wine + tree.

Meanings

1. (rare) A grapevine.
   • One of his followers, a southerner,—sudrmadr, or German, as he is assumed to have been,—having wandered, he reported on his return the discovery of wine-trees and grapes; and hence the name of Vineland, given to the locality. 1981, Sir Daniel Wilson, The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies:
   • The prince who bought the winetrees, who bestowed priceless gifts—I pity Mumha, which he has left to go into the high tomb of Oirbhealach. 1918, The Irish Monthly, page 533:
   • the bats are turning sated from the winetree and flap drunkenly homeward […] 1997, Merlie M. Alunan, Amina Among the Angels, page 82:
   • Perhaps apachiras.....etc., were certain groups of trees in the vineyard or some standard of selling the winetrees. 1954, Journal of the Oriental Institute, volume 4, page 216:
   • The third was clad as though she were wading the wheat-field to the waist, and above was wrapped in the leaves and bunches of the wine-tree. 1890, William Morris, The Roots of the Mountains:
   • They grow in springtime on the bottom part of the winetrees and has^([sic]) to be cut in order to get better quality and quantity of wine. 1900, Andre Arnold, Lecture Notes in Computer Science:

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