Grape
Grape , noun
[Old French grape, crape, bunch or cluster of grapes, French grappe, akin to French grappin grapnel, hook; from Old High German chrapfo hook, German krapfen, akin to English cramp. The sense seems to have come from the idea of clutching. Compare Agraffe, Cramp, Grapnel, Grapple.]
1.
(Botany) 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.
(Botany) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.
3.
(Man.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.
4.
(Military) Grapeshot.
Collocations (10)
Grape borer (Zoology) , See Vine borer.
Grape curculio (Zoology) , a minute black weevil (Craponius inaqualis) which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes.
Grape hyacinth (Botany) , a liliaceous plant (Muscari racemosum) with small blue globular flowers in a dense raceme.
Grape fungus (Botany) , a fungus (Oidium Tuckeri) on grapevines; vine mildew.
Grape hopper (Zoology) , a small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine.
Grape moth (Zoology) , 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 (Zoology) , the larva of the grape moth.
Sour grapes , things which persons affect to despise because they can not possess them; -- in allusion to Asop's fable of the fox and the grapes.