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Webster 1913 Edition
Grape
Grape
,Noun.
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
. (Zool.)
See
– Vine borer
. Grape curculio
(Zool.)
, 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
(Zool.)
, a small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine.
– Grape moth
(Zool.)
, 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
(Zool.)
, the larva of the grape moth.
– Sour grapes
, things which persons affect to despise because they can not possess them; – in allusion to Æsop’s fable of the fox and the grapes.
Webster 1828 Edition
Grape
GRAPE
,Noun.
1.
Properly, a cluster of the fruit of the vine; but with us, a single berry of the vine; the fruit from which wine is made by expression and fermentation.2.
In the manege, grapes signifies mangy tumors on the legs of a horse.