GRAPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grape mean? 

• GRAPE (noun)
  The noun GRAPE has 3 senses:

1. any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters

2. any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries

3. a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot

  Familiarity information: GRAPE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("grape" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Meronyms (substance of "grape"):

vino; wine (fermented juice (of grapes especially))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grape"):

bullace grape; muscadine (dull-purple grape of southern United States)

slipskin grape (a grape whose skin slips readily from the pulp)

vinifera grape (grape from a cultivated variety of the common grape vine of Europe)

Holonyms ("grape" is a part of...):

grape; grape vine; grapevine (any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries)

Derivation:

grapey; grapy (having a taste like that of grapes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

grape; grape vine; grapevine

Hypernyms ("grape" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Meronyms (parts of "grape"):

grape (any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grape"):

fox grape; Vitis labrusca (native grape of northeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties e.g. Concord grapes)

muscadine; Vitis rotundifolia (native grape of southeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties)

common grape vine; vinifera; vinifera grape; Vitis vinifera (common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes)

Holonyms ("grape" is a member of...):

genus Vitis; Vitis (the type genus of the family Vitaceae; woody vines with simple leaves and small flowers; includes a wide variety of grapes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

grape; grapeshot

Hypernyms ("grape" is a kind of...):

pellet; shot (a solid missile discharged from a firearm)

 Context examples 

IH636 grape seed proanthocyanidin extract exhibits dose-dependent free-radical scavenging and antioxidant properties.

(IH636 Grape Seed Proanthocyanidin Extract, NCI Thesaurus)

There was now employment for the whole party—for though they could not all talk, they could all eat; and the beautiful pyramids of grapes, nectarines, and peaches soon collected them round the table.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles grape.

(Grape Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

The oil extracted from the seeds of grapes.

(Grape Seed Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

The skin extract of the muscadine grape contains numerous phytochemicals including hydrolyzable tannins and flavonoids, such as anthocyanin 3,5-diglucosides, quercetin, myricetin, and kaempferol glycosides.

(Muscadine Grape Skin Extract, NCI Thesaurus)

You should know better, since I have heard that the monks of Beaulieu could squeeze a good cup of wine from their own grapes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On this there rested a large, purplish grape.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They can choke on foods like hot dogs, nuts and grapes, and on small objects like toy pieces and coins.

(Choking, NIH)

There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I found a great many foxes, disparaging whole vineyards of inaccessible grapes; but I found very few foxes whom I would have trusted within reach of a bunch.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)