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sea grape

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sea grape

–noun
1. a tropical American tree, Coccoloba uvifera, of the buckwheat family, bearing grapelike clusters of edible purple berries.
2. the fruit itself.
3. a gulfweed.

Origin:
1570–80
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sea grape  
n.  A small tropical American tree (Coccolobis uvifera) growing on sandy beaches and having large, glossy, leathery, rounded leaves and hard purplish fruit arranged in grapelike clusters.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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