grape.
A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on female vines of most species of genus Vitis and the self-fertile plants of species Vitis vinifera.
Meaning & usage
A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on female vines of most species of genus Vitis and the self-fertile plants of species Vitis vinifera.
Grapes give us whole-fruit snacks, grape juice, raisins, wine, and more.
Any woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.
wild grape covering the back slope
Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera, not necessarily edible.
sea grape; tail grape
A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.
For those seeking purply tones, the paint colors available include mauve, magenta, and grape.
Clipping of grapeshot.
men mowed down by grape
A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
A purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft.
A person's head.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English grape, borrowed from Old French grappe (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), deverbal from graper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), borrowed from Frankish *krappō (“to hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”) or *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”) Displaced Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp.
Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
Of a dark purplish red colour.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English grape, borrowed from Old French grappe (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), deverbal from graper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), borrowed from Frankish *krappō (“to hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”) or *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”) Displaced Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp.
To pick grapes.
Of livestock, to develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
To grope.
To envy (from sour grapes).
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English grape, borrowed from Old French grappe (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), deverbal from graper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), borrowed from Frankish *krappō (“to hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”) or *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”) Displaced Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp.
Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.
Where this word comes from
From rape, influenced by grape.
Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.
Where this word comes from
From rape, influenced by grape.
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