vine
要点つる植物
意味
- (ツタ,キュウリなどの)つる植物
- =grapevine 1
例文
There is a dense growth of vines in this forest.
この森には野ブドウが密集して生えている。
You don't get eggplants from a gourd vine.
瓜のつるに茄子はならぬ。
This vine winds around trees.
このつる草は木にからみつきます。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English vyne, from Anglo-Norman vigne, from Vulgar Latin vīnia, from Latin vīnea (“vines in a vineyard”), from vīneus (“related to wine”), from vīnum (“wine”), from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“vine, wine”), from *weh₁y- (“to twist, wrap”). Doublet of wine.