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vine-like

vine-like adjective: clinging like a vine.

Adjective

vine-like (comparative more vine-like, superlative most vine-like)

  1. Clinging like a vine
    • ...and it is the expression of that haunting desire of association, those vine-like emotions of the human heart which fasten on whatever is near, that give an interest like truth to the poet's fiction, who says that the mournful waters and the drooping trees murmur with his murmurs, and sorrow with...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 201

Forms of vine-like

comparativemore vine-like
superlativemost vine-like

Questions about vine-like

What does vine-like mean?
Vine-like means clinging like a vine.
What part of speech is vine-like?
Vine-like is an adjective.

Words near vine-like in the dictionary

  1. vine-grower
  2. vine-growers
  3. vine-growing
  4. vine-leaf
  5. vine-leaves
  6. vine-like
  7. vine-staff
  8. vine-staffs
  9. vine-staves
  10. vine-tree
  11. vineal

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