Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any species of dodder (Cuscuta).
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Examples
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In pleasant weather the children roamed over the country, hunting berries and nuts, drinking sugar-water, tying knots in love-vine, picking the petals from daisies to the formula
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A love-vine, sentimentally named parasite, was starting its curling way over one of the shrubs; the moss was tinted with new green; and blue and white and purple violets showed their saucy faces here and there in patches, scattered with bits of the straight dark-green of the spears of the star of Bethlehem leaves which made a contrast for the lighter color of the violet foliage.
The Heart of Arethusa Francis Barton Fox
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Once the puppy tripped over a love-vine, and getting his front paws painfully entangled yelped sharply for assistance.
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Once the puppy tripped over a love-vine, and getting his front paws painfully entangled yelped sharply for assistance.
The Miller Of Old Church Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909
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Somers got in too much of the love-vine, which has such an awful twist; or it may be he wanted to play a joke on some of our family for being jealous and wanting to get him caught by Mr. Painter -- whatever it was, that medicine had an awful power and did even more than he said it would.
Hollow Tree Nights and Days Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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Somers got in too much of the love-vine, which has such an awful twist; or it may be he wanted to play a joke on some of our family for being jealous and wanting to get him caught by Mr. Painter -- whatever it was, that medicine had an awful power and did even more than he said it would.
Mr. Turtle's Flying Adventure Hollow Tree Stories Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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In pleasant weather the children roamed over the country, hunting berries and nuts, drinking sugar-water, tying knots in love-vine, picking the petals from daisies to the formula "Love me-love me not," always accompanied by one or more, sometimes by half a dozen, of their small darky followers.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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In pleasant weather the children roamed over the country, hunting berries and nuts, drinking sugar-water, tying knots in love-vine, picking the petals from daisies to the formula "Love me-love me not," always accompanied by one or more, sometimes by half a dozen, of their small darky followers.
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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Ladybank roses overlapped honeysuckle vines over long sections of its rough-hewn pickets, while woodbine and clematis locked arms for the passage of the amorous love-vine, that lay its yellow rings in tangled masses here and there according to its own sweet will.
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Page 158 that was throwing its tendrils over the dividing-fence between her home and her neighbor's - a romance as devoid of visible leaf or blossom as the vermicelli-like love-vine that spread its yellow tangle over certain vine-clad sections of it - she gave no sign of such consciousness by the slightest deviation from her ordinary routine.
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