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grape

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–noun
1. the edible, pulpy, smooth-skinned berry or fruit that grows in clusters on vines of the genus Vitis, and from which wine is made.
2. any vine bearing this fruit.
3. a dull, dark, purplish-red color.
4. grapes, (used with a singular verb) Veterinary Pathology.
a. tuberculosis occurring in cattle, characterized by the internal formation of grapelike clusters, esp. in the lungs.
b. tuberculosis occurring in horses, characterized by grapelike clusters on the fetlocks.
5. grapeshot.
6. the grape, wine.
Origin:
1200–50; ME < OF, var. of crape cluster of fruit or flowers, orig. hook < Gmc; cf. G Krapf hook and grappel, grapnel

Related forms:
grapelike, adjective
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grape   (grāp)   
n.  
  1. Any of numerous woody vines of the genus Vitis, bearing clusters of edible berries and widely cultivated in many species and varieties.
  2. The fleshy, smooth-skinned, purple, red, or green berry of a grape, eaten raw or dried as a raisin and widely used in winemaking.
  3. A dark violet to dark grayish purple.
  4. Grapeshot.

[Middle English, from Old French, bunch of grapes, hook, of Germanic origin.]
grap·ey, grap·y adj., grap'i·ness n.
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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.

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. (Zo["o]l.) See Vine borer.

Grape curculio (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), a small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine.

Grape moth (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), 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.
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Language Translation for : grape
Spanish: uva,
German: die Weintraube,
Japanese: ぶどう
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grape 
c.1250, from O.Fr. grape "bunch of grapes," from graper "pick grapes," from Frankish, from P.Gmc. *krappon "hook" (cf. O.H.G. krapfo "hook"). The original notion was "vine hook for grape-picking." The vine is not native to England. The word replaced O.E. winberige "wine berry." Grapefruit first recorded 1693 in Hans Sloane's catalogue of Jamaican plants; presumably it originated there from chance hybrids between other cultivated citrus. So called because it grows in clusters. Grapeshot is from 1747; originally simply grape, as a collective singular (1687). Grapevine "rumor source" is 1862, from U.S. Civil War slang for "telegraph wires."
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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.)

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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grape

see sour grapes.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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