vine

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vine/vʌɪn/

▶noun

• 1 a climbing or trailing woody-stemmed plant related to the grapevine. [Vitis and other genera.]

  ■ used in names of climbing or trailing plants of other families, e.g. Russian vine.

• 2 the slender stem of a trailing or climbing plant.

– derivatives
viny adjective.

– origin ME: from OFr., from L. vinea ‘vineyard, vine’, from vinum ‘wine’.