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Vitis

noun

The type genus of the family Vitaceae; woody vines with simple leaves and small flowers; includes a wide variety of grapes. Synonym: genus Vitis.

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"Vitis" Quotes from Famous Books

... camaronas,* (* The names vine-tree, and uvas camaronas, are given in the Andes to plants of the genus Thibaudia, on account of their large succulent fruits. Thus the ancient botanists gave the name of bear's vine, uva ursi, and vine of Mount Ida (Vitis idaea), to an arbutus and a myrtillus, which belong, like the thibaudia, to the family of the Ericineae.) of nerteras, and of aralias with hoary leaves,* (* Nertera depressa, Aralia reticulata, Hedyotis blaerioides.) ...

— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt

... gg: Diogenes Laertius lib. 1. de vitis Philosophorum in Solone. Cicero in Oratione pro ...

— A Treatise of Witchcraft • Alexander Roberts

... follow a road between two walls of rocks of immense height; they reach a perpendicular elevation of five or six hundred feet, and are hung with wild plants, the mountain basil (thymus alpinus), ferus (polypodium), the whortleberry (vitis idoea), ground ivy, and other climbing plants ...

— The Man-Wolf and Other Tales • Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian

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