grape vines

Climbing fruit bearers

Grape vines are the climbing plants that produce grapes, cultivated for wine, table fruit, and raisins.

The vines grow by sending out tendrils that grip supports, and vineyards train them along trellises or wires.

The grape vines hadn't been pruned in years.

Figuratively, the grapevine is the informal network through which rumors and gossip spread: I heard through the grapevine that she's leaving.

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plant growth habit

grape vinestrees

Woody plants with trunks

fruit trees · oak trees · ground cover · shrubs · apple trees

agricultural purpose

grape vineswheat fields

Cultivated land for cereal

corn · vegetable gardens · cereal crops · rice paddies · soybean fields

wild vs. cultivated

grape vinesweeds

Unwanted wild plants

native vegetation · wilderness · fallow fields · scrubland · wild grasses

Family

grape, vines, vine, grapes, grapey, vineyard, viniculture

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