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grape

[ greyp ]

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.
    1. tuberculosis occurring in cattle, characterized by the internal formation of grapelike clusters, especially in the lungs.
    2. tuberculosis occurring in horses, characterized by grapelike clusters on the fetlocks.
  5. the grape, wine.


grape

/ É¡°ù±ðɪ±è /

noun

  1. the fruit of the grapevine, which has a purple or green skin and sweet flesh: eaten raw, dried to make raisins, currants, or sultanas, or used for making wine
  2. any of various plants that bear grapelike fruit, such as the Oregon grape
  3. the grape
    an informal term for wine
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ²µ°ù²¹±è±ðËŒ±ô¾±°ì±ð, adjective
  • ˈ²µ°ù²¹±è±ð±ô±ð²õ²õ, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ²µ°ù²¹±è±ðl¾±°ì±ð adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of grape1

1200–50; Middle English < Old French, variant of crape cluster of fruit or flowers, originally hook (for pruning vines) < Germanic; compare German Krapf hook and grapple ( def ), grapnel
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of grape1

C13: from Old French grape bunch of grapes, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German °ì°ùÄå±è´Ú´Ç; related to cramp ², grapple
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Idioms and Phrases

see sour grapes .
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Example Sentences

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Then, coastal sage, buckwheat, wild grape, wildflowers, milkweed and other native plants will be planted on the roughly one-acre habitat.

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Ice wine is made from grapes that freeze on the vine and are pressed while still frozen, creating a sweet, almost syrupy dessert wine.

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An array of whole peeled tangerines, strawberries, hawthorn berries and green and red grapes glistened on my phone screen like jewels you only admire but can’t touch.

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Roasted grapes — cooked with olive oil and garlic — turn savory in a way that completely defies their sweetness.

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California’s wine country struggles with changing tastes, foreign competition and too many grapes on the vine.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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