Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants, of the natural order Vitaceæ, nearly allied to the grape (Vitis), and united with it by some authorities.
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Examples
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It aned strange that they had made no igements for the care of their houseplants. pradescantias, peperomias, a cissus that ibed to the ceiling on carefully spaced igs, a Joseph's coat, a variegated ivy, all ing down leaves that were limp and parched.
Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981
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I here halted the party for breakfast by the side of a stream and, on casting my eyes upwards, I found that I was in a sort of natural grapery, for the tree under which I lay was covered with a plant which bears a sort of grape and I believe is a species of cissus.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 George Grey 1855
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The ketosterones found in Incarnate come from cissus quadrangularis
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