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grape definition

grape (grāp)

noun

  1. any of various small, round, smooth-skinned, juicy berries, generally purple, red, or green, growing in clusters on woody vines: grapes are eaten raw, used to make wine, or dried to make raisins
  2. any of various vines (genus Vitis) of the grape family that bear grapes, including fox grape and muscadine; grapevine
  3. a dark purplish red
  4. grapeshot

Etymology: ME grap, replacing earlier winberie (see wine & berry) < OFr grape, bunch of grapes < graper, to gather with a hook < Frank *krappo (OHG chrapfo), a hook: for IE base see cradle

adjective

designating a family (Vitaceae, order Rhamnales) of dicotyledonous, tendril-bearing, climbing, woody vines, including the Virginia creeper

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grape

n.

Types of grapes include: wine, raisin, seedless, white, red, lambrusca, Concord, scuppernong, summer, plum, chicken, frost, winter, fox, bush, sand, muscadine, Catawba, Delaware, Hartford, Iona, Adirondack, Rogers, Old World, Mission, Vinifera, Euvitis, Niagara, bullace, viparia, rotundifolia, Malaga, Muscat, Thompson, Pinot, Riesling, Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc, black Hamberg, Isabella.


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grape Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • ripen: However, lack of rain is not enough as of course you need sunshine and warmth to ripen grapes.

Preposition: on

  • vine: Some familiar food may be seen - apples on trees, or grapes on vines with a variety of vegetables grown in season.

Adjective modifier

  • sour: Sour grapes on behalf of your daddy, maybe?

Modifies a noun

  • vine: Grape vine Almond blossom Fig leaves Olive fruit 11: In Isaiah's prophesy, what flower will bloom in the desert?

Noun used with modifier

  • Riesling: The Riesling grape is well adapted to well-drained poor soils, especially slate.

Preposition: of

  • wrath: Even the gasoline pumps up the road look they came out of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.

Preposition: from

  • thornbushes: You don't pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles.
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grape quotes

OAutumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe, And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.

-Blake,William

  The maid (and thereby hangs a tale) For such a maid no Whitson-ale Could ever yet produce: No grape that's kindly ripe, could be So round, so plump, so soft as she, Nor half so full of juice.

-Suckling, SirJohn

Beulah, peel me a grape.

-West, Mae

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