bine
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /baɪn/
bine (plural bines)
- (botany) A climbing plant which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support (distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers).
- 1900, Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush”:
- The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.
- The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
- 1900, Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush”:
bine (plural bines)
- (UK, slang) cigarette
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