vine-like

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vine-like (comparative more vine-like, superlative most vine-like)

  1. Clinging like a vine
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. [], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, [], →OCLC, page 201:
      ...and it is the expression of that haunting desire of association, those vine-like emotions of the human heart which fasten on whatever is near, that give an interest like truth to the poet's fiction, who says that the mournful waters and the drooping trees murmur with his murmurs, and sorrow with his sorrows.