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LOVE VINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does love vine mean? 

LOVE VINE (noun)
  The noun LOVE VINE has 1 sense:

1. leafless parasitic vine with dense clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers on orange-yellow stems that twine around clover or flaxplay

  Familiarity information: LOVE VINE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LOVE VINE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Leafless parasitic vine with dense clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers on orange-yellow stems that twine around clover or flax

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cuscuta gronovii; love vine

Hypernyms ("love vine" is a kind of...):

dodder (a leafless annual parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta having whitish or yellow filamentous stems; obtain nourishment through haustoria)

Holonyms ("love vine" is a member of...):

Cuscuta; genus Cuscuta (genus of twining leafless parasitic herbs lacking chlorophyll: dodder)


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