winetree

English

Alternative forms

• wine-tree
• vinetree

Etymology

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

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 […]