winetree

plural winetrees · alternative wine-tree · alternative vinetree

1. rareA grapevine.

   the bats are turning sated from the winetree and flap drunkenly homeward […]

   1997, Merlie M. Alunan, Amina Among the Angels, page 82

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   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

   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

   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

   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