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Includes a wide variety of grapes
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vitis
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Vitis ( grapevines ) is a genus of 79 accepted species of vining plants in the flowering plant family Vitaceae . The genus is made up of species predominantly from the Northern hemisphere. It is economically important as the source of grapes , both for ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vitis \Vi"tis\, n. [L., a vine.] (Bot.) A genus of plants including all true grapevines.
Usage examples of vitis.
Pete,” he said, “but you lave been trapped by an unusually vicious specimen of vitis Vinifera.
Whether the advantage thus gained by twining plants accounts for their summits being so frequently hooked, we do not know, as this structure is not very rare with plants which do not climb, and with some climbers (for instance, Vitis, Ampelopsis, Cissus, etc.