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noun

Grape n.

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. (Zool.) See Vine borer.

Grape curculio (Zool.), a minute black weevil (Craponius inaequalis) 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 (Zool.), a small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine.

Grape moth (Zool.), 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 (Zool.), the larva of the grape moth.

Sour grapes, things which persons affect to despise because they can not possess them; in allusion to AEsop's fable of the fox and the grapes.

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Etymology of 'Grape'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Grape" Quotes from Famous Books

... Henry, always "generous," took up the idea with great interest and sent out Zarco and Vaz with another of his equerries, one Bartholomew Perestrello, to colonise, with two ships and products for a new country; corn, honey, the sugar cane from Sicily, the Malvoisie grape from Crete, even the ...

— Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. • C. Raymond Beazley

... they were right, but many of the habits of his native land he considered would engraft well with those of Mendoza. Moncrieff delighted in dancing—that is, in giving a good hearty rout, and he simply did so whenever there was the slightest excuse. The cereal harvest ended thus, the grape harvest also, and making of the wine and preserves, and so of ...

— Our Home in the Silver West - A Story of Struggle and Adventure • Gordon Stables

... gives a photograph. She placed it on the top of the medium's head. "Do you recognise this?" "Yes, it is your summer house; but I have forgotten the name of the town." "Don't you remember D.?" "Oh, the little brick house and the vine, grape-vine some call it. Yes, I remember it all; it comes back as distinctly as the daylight. Where is the little outhouse?" All this is correct. The outhouse which George Pelham was surprised not to see was a henhouse left just out of the photograph. At another ...

— Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research • Michael Sage

... the Christian faith the Irish perishing under idolatry. To each was affliction sent for the profit of his soul, as is the flail to the grain, the furnace to the gold, the file to the iron, the wine-press to the grape, and the oil-press to the olive. Therefore it was that Patrick, at the command of the forementioned prince, was appointed to the care of the swine, and under his care the herd became fruitful and exceedingly multiplied. From whence it may well ...

— The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick - Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings • Various

... way back to his hollow-stump bungalow, Uncle Wiggily took a short cut through the woods. And, as he was passing along, his paw slipped and he became all tangled up in a wild grape vine, which was like a lot of ropes, all twisted together into ...

— Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard - Adventures of the Rabbit Gentleman with the Mother Goose Characters • Howard R. Garis

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