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a plant that decided walking was for cowards and climbed instead.
means A plant with a long, flexible stem that climbs, trails, or creeps by attaching to supports or sprawling along the ground, most famously the grapevine.
from From Old French 'vigne,' from Latin 'vinea' (vineyard, vine), rooted in 'vinum' (wine) — the same family that gives us 'wine,' 'vintage,' and 'vineyard.' At its heart the word is about the grapevine specifically: to the Romans, a 'vine' was first and foremost the thing wine came from, and the broader sense of any climbing plant grew outward from that. Possibly traceable further to a Mediterranean root shared across ancient languages, but that older trail is genuinely murky.
- climbing trick
- Tendrils sense touch and coil within minutes.
- old tech
- Grapevines have been cultivated over 8,000 years.
- strangler kind
- Some vines kill the trees they climb.
- speed demon
- Kudzu grows up to a foot per day.
- reach goals
- Rattan vines stretch over 600 feet long.
grape vine — plant species vitis vinifera, produces wine grapes across mediterranean regions