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1. n. 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. n. The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.
3. n. A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.
4. n. Grapeshot.
5. n. any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters
6. n. any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
7. n. a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot
8. 1. (Bot.) 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. (Bot.) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine. 3. (Man.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse. 4. (Mil.) Grapeshot. Grape borer. (Zoöl.) See Vine borer. -- Grape curculio (Zoöl.), a minute black weevil (Craponius inæqualis) which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes. -- Grape flower, or Grape hyacinth (Bot.), a liliaceous plant (Muscari racemosum) with small blue globular flowers in a dense raceme. -- Grape fungus (Bot.), a fungus (Oidium Tuckeri) on grapevines; vine mildew. -- Grape hopper (Zoöl.), a Small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine. -- Grape moth (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), the larva of the grape moth. -- Soar grapes, things which persons affect to despise because they can not possess them; -- in allusion to
9. A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters orbunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have ajuicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use andfor making wine and raisins.
10. n:100 n. any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters n. any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries