'Grape' definitions:

Definition of 'grape'

From: WordNet
noun
Any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters
noun
Any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries [syn: grape, grapevine, grape vine]
noun
A cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot [syn: grapeshot, grape]

Definition of 'Grape'

From: GCIDE
  • Grape \Grape\, n. [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.) 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Bot.) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Man.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Mil.) Grapeshot. [1913 Webster]
  • Grape borer. (Zool.) See Vine borer.
  • Grape curculio (Zool.), a minute black weevil ({Craponius in[ae]qualis}) 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 [AE]sop's fable of the fox and the grapes. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Grape'

From: Easton
  • Grape the fruit of the vine, which was extensively cultivated in Palestine. Grapes are spoken of as "tender" (Cant. 2:13, 15), "unripe" (Job 15:33), "sour" (Isa. 18:5), "wild" (Isa. 5:2,4). (See Rev. 14:18; Micah 7:1; Jer. 6:9; Ezek. 18:2, for figurative use of the word.) (See VINE.)

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