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LOVE VINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Leafless parasitic vine with dense clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers on orange-yellow stems that twine around clover or flax
Synonyms:
Cuscuta gronovii; love vine
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("love vine" is a kind of...):
dodder (a leafless annual parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta having whitish or yellow filamentous stems; obtain nourishment through haustoria)
Holonyms ("love vine" is a member of...):
Cuscuta; genus Cuscuta (genus of twining leafless parasitic herbs lacking chlorophyll: dodder)