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Plant stem
Answer for the clue "Plant stem ", 4 letters:
bine
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Word definitions for bine in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors; cultivated in America [syn: common hop , common hops , European hop , Humulus lupulus ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bine \Bine\, n. [ Bind , cf. Woodbine .] The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.
Usage examples of bine.
The sheaf grows under her fingers, it is bound about with a girdle of twisted stalks, in which mingle the green bine of convolvulus and the pink-streaked bells that must fade.
The first frosts, on the other hand, shrivel the bines of white bryony, which part and hang separated, and in the spring a fresh bine pushes up with greyish green leaves and tendrils feeling for support.
As it withers, the many-pointed leaf of the white bryony and the bine as it shrivels, in like manner, do their part.
The heart-shaped leaves have dropped from the bine, leaving thick bunches of red and green berries clustering about the greyish stem of the oak.
Thrusting itself into the tangle, long woody bines of bittersweet hang their clusters of red berries, and above and over all the hoary clematis spreads its beard, whitening to meet the winter.
Her notion of the passion was parasitic: man the tree, woman the bine: but the bine was flame to enwind and to soar, serpent to defend, immortal flowers to crown.
Her notion of the passion was parasitic: man the tree, woman the bine: but the bine was flame to enwind and to soar, serpent to defend, immortal flowers to crown.
I was in the fields, with the other women and the last of the harvest, the way it is, we work only with the living Plants, so we tend the Bines all summer, soon as the Cones are picked, and dead, it is then the Men take over, net?
In fact, if his late father had once had a hundred concu bines, it was quite possible his people thought having just one was the ultimate in self-denial and restraint on his part.
THE THRUSH IN FEBRUARY I know him, February's thrush, And loud at eve he valentines On sprays that paw the naked bush Where soon will sprout the thorns and bines.