A climbing or trailing plant with dark-colored stems or branches.
Compound of 'black' and 'bine' (Old English 'bīne', the twining or climbing stem of hops). Originally referred to hop plants with dark stems.
Hops grow on vines called bines, and medieval brewers would have noticed some varieties had distinctly darker stems—giving them a practical way to distinguish different plant varieties before modern botanical classification.
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