Winetree

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A grapevine. rare

    "The third was clad as though she were wading the wheat-field to the waist, and above was wrapped in the leaves and bunches of the wine-tree."

Example

More examples

"The third was clad as though she were wading the wheat-field to the waist, and above was wrapped in the leaves and bunches of the wine-tree."

Etymology

From Middle English wintre, variant of vyne-tre, from Old English wīntrēow, from Proto-West Germanic *wīnatreu, from Proto-Germanic *wīnatrewą, equivalent to wine + tree.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.