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 - See
grapevine 1 - the grape ⇒
an informal term forwine 1 - See grapeshot
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grape /greɪp/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Plant Biologythe smooth-skinned, green or purple fruit that grows in clusters on vines, may be eaten, and is used to make wine.
grape
(grāp),USA pronunciation n.
grape′like′, adj.
- Plant Biologythe edible, pulpy, smooth-skinned berry or fruit that grows in clusters on vines of the genus Vitis, and from which wine is made.
- Plant Biologyany vine bearing this fruit.
- a dull, dark, purplish-red color.
- Veterinary Diseases grapes, (used with a sing. v.)
- tuberculosis occurring in cattle, characterized by the internal formation of grapelike clusters, esp. in the lungs.
- tuberculosis occurring in horses, characterized by grapelike clusters on the fetlocks.
- grapeshot.
- Wine the grape, wine.
- Gmc; compare German Krapf hook and grappel, grapnel
- Old French, variant of crape cluster of fruit or flowers, origin, originally hook
- Middle English 1200–50
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