winetree
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Nomen
[edit]winetree (plural winetrees)
- (rare) A grapevine.
- 1890, William Morris, The Roots of the Mountains:
- 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.
- 1900, Andre Arnold, Lecture Notes in Computer Science:
- 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.
- 1918, The Irish Monthly, page 533:
- 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.
- 1954, Journal of the Oriental Institute, volume 4, page 216:
- Perhaps apachiras.....etc., were certain groups of trees in the vineyard or some standard of selling the winetrees.
- 1981, Sir Daniel Wilson, The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies:
- 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.
- 1997, Merlie M. Alunan, Amina Among the Angels, page 82:
- the bats are turning
sated from the winetree
and flap drunkenly homeward […]
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