A name for several plants that yield an abundant watery juice. a. Tetracera alnifolia (or potatoria): see prec. 2. b. Phytocrene gigantea, a tall climbing shrub of Martaban, Burma. c. The W. Indian climber Doliocarpus Calinea.
1833. Penny Cycl., I. 187/1. (art. Africa) The water-vine (Tetracera potatoria), the stems of which are a sort of vegetable fountain, discharging, when cut across, a cool, limpid, and refreshing fluid.
1846. Lindley, Veget. Kingd., 271. In the province of Martaban, Dr. Wallich found his Water Vine (Phytocrene) whose singular soft and porous wood discharges when wounded a very large quantity of pure and tasteless fluid, which is quite wholesome, and drunk by the natives.
1864. Grisebach, Flora W. Ind. Isl., 788. Water-vine, Doliocarpus Calinea.
1871. Kingsley, At Last, xi. II. 105. We cut a water-vine, and had a long cool drink.
