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Etymology

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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.

Noun

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winetree (plural winetrees)

  1. (rare) A grapevine.
    • 1890, William Morris, The Roots of the Mountains:
      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.
    • 1900, Andre Arnold, Lecture Notes in Computer Science:
      They grow in springtime on the bottom part of the winetrees and has[sic] to be cut in order to get better quality and quantity of wine.
    • 1918, The Irish Monthly, page 533:
      The prince who bought the winetrees, who bestowed priceless gifts—I pity Mumha, which he has left to go into the high tomb of Oirbhealach.
    • 1954, Journal of the Oriental Institute, volume 4, page 216:
      Perhaps apachiras.....etc., were certain groups of trees in the vineyard or some standard of selling the winetrees.
    • 1981, Sir Daniel Wilson, The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies:
      One of his followers, a southerner,—sudrmadr, or German, as he is assumed to have been,—having wandered, he reported on his return the discovery of wine-trees and grapes; and hence the name of Vineland, given to the locality.
    • 1997, Merlie M. Alunan, Amina Among the Angels, page 82:
      the bats are turning
      sated from the winetree
      and flap drunkenly homeward []