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GRAPE
grapeshot, grape
(noun) a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot
grape
(noun) any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters
grape, grapevine, grape vine
(noun) any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
grape (countable and uncountable, plural grapes)
(countable) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.
(countable) A woody vine that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine; of genus Vitis.
(countable, uncountable) A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.
(uncountable) grapeshot.
A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
(US, slang, colloquial, African-American Vernacular) A person's head.
Adjective
grape (comparative more grape, superlative most grape)
Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
Of a dark purplish red colour.
Verb
grape (third-person singular simple present grapes, present participle graping, simple past and past participle graped)
To pick grapes.
(of livestock) To develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
(dialect, north, UK) To grope.
Anagrams
• gaper, pager, parge
Source: Wiktionary
Grape, n. Etym: [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.)
Definition: 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.)
Definition: The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.
3. (Man.)
Definition: A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.
4. (Mil.)
Definition: Grapeshot. Grape borer. (Zoöl.) See Vine borer.
– Grape curculio (Zoöl.), a minute black weevil (Craponius inæqualis) 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.
РGrape hopper (Zo̦l.), a Small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine.
РGrape moth (Zo̦l.), 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.
РGrape worm (Zo̦l.), the larva of the grape moth.
– Soar grapes, things which persons affect to despise because they can not possess them; -- in allusion to
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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