A climbing perennial diœcious plant (Humulus lupulus, N.O. Urticaceæ, suborder Cannabineæ), with rough lobed leaves shaped like those of the vine…

the trailing stem or bine of the hop-plant, or the whole plant.

Hence, used to name varieties of the Hop.

a variety of hop-plant (said to produce an inferior hop); see bind, n. 2b, bine, n. 1c.

attributive and in the genitive. Designating a cultivated variety of hop highly valued in brewing, and (in later use) any of a group of varieties…

any cultivated variety of hop having a pale stem; cf. earlier white bind n., and white vine n. (b).

= green bine n.

= sense 2; also applied to species of Origanum.

a variety of hop (see quot. 1881).

A variety of hops.