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grape

Pronunciation: /ɡɹeɪp/

The English word “grape” has 15 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. 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.
  2. Any woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.
  3. Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera, not necessarily edible.
  4. A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.
  5. A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
  6. A purple-shirted technician responsible for refueling aircraft.
  7. A person's head.
  8. Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.

adjective

  1. Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
  2. Of a dark purplish red colour.

verb

  1. To pick grapes.
  2. Of livestock, to develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
  3. To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
  4. To grope.
  5. To envy (from sour grapes).

Etymology

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”).…

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