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Definitions for: Grape
[n] any of various juicy purple- or green-skinned fruit of the genus Vitis; grow in clusters
[n] any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
Webster (1913) Definition: 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) 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),
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.
Synonyms: grapevine
See Also: bullace grape, common grape vine, edible fruit, fox grape, fox grape, genus Vitis, grape, grape, grapevine, muscadine, muscadine, slip-skin grape, vine, vinifera, vinifera grape, vinifera grape, vino, Vitis, Vitis labrusca, Vitis rotundifolia, Vitis vinifera, wine
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