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Grapevine \Grape"vine`\, n. (Bot.)
A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis, having small
green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called
grapes.
Note: The common grapevine of the Old World is Vitis
vinifera, and is a native of Central Asia. Another
variety is that yielding small seedlessGrapes : commonly
called Zante currants. The northern Fox grape of
the United States is the V. Labrusca, from which, by
cultivation, has come the Isabella variety. The
southern Fox grape, or Muscadine, is the V.
vulpina. The Frost grape is V. cordifolia, which
has very fragrant flowers, and ripens after the early
frosts.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Grapes :
A Modula-like system description language.
E-mail: .
["GRAPES Language Description. Syntax, Semantics and Grammar
of GRAPES-86", Siemens Nixdorf Inform, Berlin 1991, ISBN
3-8009-4112-0].
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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