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Grape : (noun)
1: any of various juicy purple- or green-skinned fruit of the
genus Vitis; grow in clusters
2: any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters
of edible berries [syn: grapevine]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Grape : \Grape\, n. [OF. grape, crape, bunch or cluster of grapes,
F. grappe, akin to F. grappin grapnel, hook; fr. OHG. chrapfo
hook, G. krapfen, akin to E. cramp. The sense seems to have
come from the idea of clutching. Cf. Agraffe, Cramp,
Grapnel, Grapple.]
1. (Bot.) A well-known edible berry growing in pendent
clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are
smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in
great quantities for table use and for making wine and
raisins.
2. (Bot.) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.
3. (Man.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.
4. (Mil.) Grapeshot.
Grape borer. (Zo["o]l.) See Vine borer.
Grape curculio (Zo["o]l.), a minute black weevil
({Craponius in[ae]qualis) which in the larval state eats
the interior of grapes.
Grape flower, or
Grape hyacinth (Bot.), a liliaceous plant ({Muscari
racemosum) with small blue globular flowers in a dense
raceme.
Grape_fungus_(Bot.),_a_fungus_({Oidium_Tuckeri">Grape fungus (Bot.), a fungus ({Oidium Tuckeri) on
grapevines; vine mildew.
Grape hopper (Zo["o]l.), a small yellow and red hemipterous
insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the
grapevine.
Grape_moth_(Zo["o]l.),_a_small_moth_({Eudemis_botrana">Grape moth (Zo["o]l.), a small moth ({Eudemis botrana),
which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes, and
often binds them together with silk.
Grape of a cannon, the cascabel or knob at the breech.
Grape sugar. See Glucose.
Grape worm (Zo["o]l.), the larva of the grape moth.
Sour grapes, things which persons affect to despise because
they can not possess them; -- in allusion to [AE]sop's
fable of the fox and the grapes.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Grape : the fruit of the vine, which was extensively cultivated in
Palestine. Grapes are spoken of as "tender" (Cant. 2:13, 15),
"unripe" (Job 15:33), "sour" (Isa. 18:5), "wild" (Isa. 5:2,4).
(See Rev. 14:18; Micah 7:1; Jer. 6:9; Ezek. 18:2, for figurative
use of the word.) (See VINE.)
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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