GRAPES

Noun

grapes

plural of grape

Verb

grapes

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grape

Anagrams

• Gasper, gapers, gasper, pagers, parges, sparge

Source: Wiktionary

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GRAPE

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.

– Grape hopper (Zoöl.), a Small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine.

– Grape moth (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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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