silvervine

1. 1.

   ornamental vine of eastern Asia having yellow edible fruit and leaves with silver-white markings

   Synonymssilver vineActinidia polygama

   Broadervine

   Part ofActinidia

Other forms of silvervine

plural

silvervines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about silvervine

What does silvervine mean?

silvervine means "ornamental vine of eastern Asia having yellow edible fruit and leaves with silver-white markings".

How many syllables are in silvervine?

silvervine has 3 syllables: sil-ver-vine. The stress falls on "sil".

What is another word for silvervine?

Close synonyms include silver vine, Actinidia polygama. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is silvervine a common word?

silvervine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.