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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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
grape(s)

  1. n.
    champagne; wine. (See also berries.) : No more of the grapes for me. It tickles my nose.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

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."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Bible Dictionary

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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Idioms & Phrases

grape

see sour grapes.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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