Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the genus Phytocrene.
- noun A climbing shrub, Dolicarpus Calinea of the Dilleniaceæ, found in tropical America.
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The water-vine also acts as a Samaritan in the jungle.
My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) Giovanni Battista Cerruti 1882
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