Lexic.us

Definition of Silver vine

1. Noun. Ornamental vine of eastern Asia having yellow edible fruit and leaves with silver-white markings.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Silver Vine

Literary usage of Silver vine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"Bread-basket, with silver vine border and pierced and chased centre. Cake-basket, with silver border and chased centra. Registered toast-racks ..."

2. The Masters of Ukioye: A Complete Historical Description of Japanese by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa, William H. Ketcham (1896)
"... trellis work with its silver vine over the purple of the girls ! and the texture ! And the grace of the three simultaneously opening petticoats ! ..."

3. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of by Great Exhibition (1851)
"Bread-basket, with silver vine border and pierced and chased centre. ... Candlestick of embossed silver vine pattern. Round candlestick, silver mounted. ..."

4. Biltmore Nursery, Biltmore, N.C. (1907)
"DARK-LEAVED silver vine. A strong-growing vine with dark green and lustrous heart-shaped ... BRICHT - LEAVED silver vine. A hardy climber with bright green, ..."

5. The American Flower Garden by Neltje Blanchan, Leonard Barron (1909)
"silver vine (Actinidia arguta). Best arbour vine. Free from insects and fungi. Twining, not clinging. Leaves dark green, quite tough, with reddish petioles. ..."

6. The Musical World (1863)
"... surrounded by silver vine-leaves, rests a green crystal cask, richly festooned with silver grapes, which twine down to the silver tap. ..."

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