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The type genus of the family Vitaceae
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vitis
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Vitis is a genus of about 60 species of plants in the flowering plant family Vitaceae Vitis can also refer to: vine staff , the centurion's rod used for discipline in the Roman army Vitis, Austria Vitis, Peru and Vitis District , a town and a district of ...
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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.