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Ampeloglypter sesostris

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Vine \Vine\, n. [F. vigne, L. vinea a vineyard, vine from vineus
   of or belonging to wine, vinum wine, grapes. See {Wine}, and
   cf. {Vignette}.] (Bot.)
      (a) Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.
      (b) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender
          stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs
          by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing
          anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper;
          as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons,
          squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.

                There shall be no grapes on the vine. --Jer.
                                                  viii. 13.

                And one went out into the field to gather herbs,
                and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild
                gourds.                           --2 Kings iv.
                                                  89.

   {Vine apple} (Bot.), a small kind of squash. --Roger
      Williams.

   {Vine beetle} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of
      beetles which are injurious to the leaves or branches of
      the grapevine. Among the more important species are the
      grapevine fidia (see {Fidia}), the spotted {Pelidnota}
      (see {Rutilian}), the vine fleabeetle ({Graptodera
      chalybea}), the rose beetle (see under {Rose}), the vine
      weevil, and several species of {Colaspis} and {Anomala}.
      

   {Vine borer}. (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) Any one of several species of beetles whose larv[ae]
          bore in the wood or pith of the grapevine, especially
          {Sinoxylon basilare}, a small species the larva of
          which bores in the stems, and {Ampeloglypter
          sesostris}, a small reddish brown weevil (called also
          {vine weevil}), which produces knotlike galls on the
          branches.
      (b) A clearwing moth ({[AE]geria polistiformis}), whose
          larva bores in the roots of the grapevine and is often
          destructive.

   {Vine dragon}, an old and fruitless branch of a vine. [Obs.]
      --Holland.

   {Vine forester} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of
      moths belonging to {Alypia} and allied genera, whose
      larv[ae] feed on the leaves of the grapevine.

   {Vine fretter} (Zo["o]l.), a plant louse, esp. the phylloxera
      that injuries the grapevine.

   {Vine grub} (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of insect
      larv[ae] that are injurious to the grapevine.

   {Vine hopper} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of leaf
      hoppers which suck the sap of the grapevine, especially
      {Erythroneura vitis}. See Illust. of {Grape hopper}, under
      {Grape}.

   {Vine inchworm} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of any species of
      geometrid moths which feed on the leaves of the grapevine,
      especially {Cidaria diversilineata}.

   {Vine-leaf rooer} (Zo["o]l.), a small moth ({Desmia
      maculalis}) whose larva makes a nest by rolling up the
      leaves of the grapevine. The moth is brownish black,
      spotted with white.

   {Vine louse} (Zo["o]l.), the phylloxera.

   {Vine mildew} (Bot.), a fungous growth which forms a white,
      delicate, cottony layer upon the leaves, young shoots, and
      fruit of the vine, causing brown spots upon the green
      parts, and finally a hardening and destruction of the
      vitality of the surface. The plant has been called {Oidium
      Tuckeri}, but is now thought to be the conidia-producing
      stage of an {Erysiphe}.

   {Vine of Sodom} (Bot.), a plant named in the Bible (--Deut.
      xxxii. 32), now thought to be identical with the apple of
      Sodom. See {Apple of Sodom}, under {Apple}.

   {Vine sawfly} (Zo["o]l.), a small black sawfiy ({Selandria
      vitis}) whose larva feeds upon the leaves of the
      grapevine. The larv[ae] stand side by side in clusters
      while feeding.

   {Vine slug} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of the vine sawfly.

   {Vine sorrel} (Bot.), a climbing plant ({Cissus acida})
      related to the grapevine, and having acid leaves. It is
      found in Florida and the West Indies.

   {Vine sphinx} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of hawk
      moths. The larv[ae] feed on grapevine leaves.

   {Vine weevil}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Vine borer}
      (a) above, and {Wound gall}, under {Wound}.

Wound \Wound\ (?; 277), n. [OE. wounde, wunde, AS. wund; akin to
   OFries. wunde, OS. wunda, D. wonde, OHG. wunta, G. wunde,
   Icel. und, and to AS., OS., & G. wund sore, wounded, OHG.
   wunt, Goth. wunds, and perhaps also to Goth. winnan to
   suffer, E. win. [root]140. Cf. Zounds.]
   1. A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a
      breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the
      substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab,
      rent, or the like. --Chaucer.

            Showers of blood Rained from the wounds of
            slaughtered Englishmen.               --Shak.

   2. Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to
      feeling, faculty, reputation, etc.

   3. (Criminal Law) An injury to the person by which the skin
      is divided, or its continuity broken; a lesion of the
      body, involving some solution of continuity.

   Note: Walker condemns the pronunciation woond as a
         ``capricious novelty.'' It is certainly opposed to an
         important principle of our language, namely, that the
         Old English long sound written ou, and pronounced like
         French ou or modern English oo, has regularly changed,
         when accented, into the diphthongal sound usually
         written with the same letters ou in modern English, as
         in ground, hound, round, sound. The use of ou in Old
         English to represent the sound of modern English oo was
         borrowed from the French, and replaced the older and
         Anglo-Saxon spelling with u. It makes no difference
         whether the word was taken from the French or not,
         provided it is old enough in English to have suffered
         this change to what is now the common sound of ou; but
         words taken from the French at a later time, or
         influenced by French, may have the French sound.

   {Wound gall} (Zo["o]l.), an elongated swollen or tuberous
      gall on the branches of the grapevine, caused by a small
      reddish brown weevil ({Ampeloglypter sesostris}) whose
      larv[ae] inhabit the galls.
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