vineal
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vineal (comparative more vineal, superlative most vineal)
- Of, pertaining to, bearing, or containing, vines.
- vineal plant
- 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter I.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 100:
- The ſame [planting in a quincunx formation] ſeems confirmed in Creece[sic – meaning Greece] from a ſingular expreſſion in Ariſtotle concerning the order of Vines, delivered by a military term repreſenting the order of Souldiers, vvhich alſo confirmeth the antiquity of this form yet uſed in vineal plantations.
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- “vineal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.