VITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Vitis mean? 

• VITIS (noun)
  The noun VITIS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: VITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Vitis; Vitis

Hypernyms ("Vitis" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Vitis"):

grape; grape vine; grapevine (any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries)

fox grape; Vitis labrusca (native grape of northeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties e.g. Concord grapes)

muscadine; Vitis rotundifolia (native grape of southeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties)

common grape vine; vinifera; vinifera grape; Vitis vinifera (common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes)

Holonyms ("Vitis" is a member of...):

family Vitaceae; grapevine family; Vitaceae; Vitidaceae (a family of vines belonging to order Rhamnales)

 Context examples 

A nutritional supplement containing an extract of the skin of Muscadine grape (Vitis rotundifolia), with anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and potential chemopreventive activities.

(Muscadine Grape Skin Extract, NCI Thesaurus)