01 n. A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and a…
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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.(Bot.)
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The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.(Bot.)
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A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.(Man.)
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Grapeshot.(Mil.)
Phrases & compounds
Grape borer —
See Vine borer.
Grape curculio —
a minute black weevil (Craponius inæqualis) which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes.
Grape flower —
a liliaceous plant (Muscari racemosum) with small blue globular flowers in a dense raceme.
Grape fungus —
a fungus (Oidium Tuckeri) on grapevines; vine mildew.
Grape hopper —
a small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine.
Grape moth —
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 —
the larva of the grape moth.
Sour grapes —
things which persons affect to despise because they can not possess them; -- in allusion to Æsop's fable of the fox and the grapes.