vine

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


In Australia, the word is looselyapplied to many trailing or creeping plants, which help toform scrubs and thickets. In the more marked cases specificadjectives are used with the word. See following words.

1849. J. P. Townsend, `Rambles in New South Wales,' p. 22:

«With thick creepers, commonly called `vines.'»

1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. ii. p. 21:

«Impenetrable vine-scrubs line the river-banks at intervals.»

1890. C. Lumholtz, `Among Cannibals,' p. 25:

«Vitis in great abundance and of many varieties are foundespecially in the scrubs, hence the colonists call this sortof brush, vine-scrub.»

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