Concord grape

[kong-kerd, kon-kawrd, kong-]

Concord grape

[kong-kerd, kon-kawrd, kong-]
noun
a cultivated variety of the fox grape, Vitis labrusca, used in making jelly, juice, and wine.

Origin:
1855–60, Americanism
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Concord grape is always a great word to know.
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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Concord grape (ˈkɒŋkəd, ˈkɒnkɔːd)
 
n
a variety of grape with purple-black fruit covered with a bluish bloom
 
[C19: discovered at Concord, Mass.]

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