grape : Idioms & Phrases

• noun evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn
  sand berry; mountain box; creashak; common bearberry; wild cranberry; mealberry; sandberry; hog cranberry; Arctostaphylos uva-ursi; red bearberry.
  

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• . See under Black.

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• noun dull-purple grape of southern United States
  muscadine.
  

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• noun superior red wine grapes grown especially in the Bordeaux region of France and northern California
  

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• noun white wine grape
  Chardonnay.
  

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• noun prolific species having particularly beautiful dark blue flowers
  Muscari neglectum.
  

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

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• noun slipskin grape; a purple table grape of the northeastern United States
  

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• noun of North America and Eurasia
  Botrychium matricariifolium; daisy-leaved grape fern.
  

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• noun of North America and Eurasia
  Botrychium matricariifolium; daisy-leaved grape fern.
  

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• noun native grape of northeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties e.g. Concord grapes
  Vitis labrusca.
  
• noun purplish-black wild grape of the eastern United States with tough skins that slip easily from the flesh; cultivated in many varieties
  

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• (Bot.), the name of two species of American grapes. The northern fox grape (Vitis Labrusca) is the origin of the varieties called Isabella, Concord, Hartford, etc., and the southern fox grape (Vitis vulpina) has produced the Scuppernong, and probably the Catawba.

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• (Bot.), an American grape, with very small, acid berries.

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• noun an arbor where grapes are grown
  grape arbor.
  

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• noun an arbor where grapes are grown
  grape arbor.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Vine borer.

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• (Zoöl.) , a minute black weevil (Craponius inæqualis) which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes.

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• noun a fern of the genus Botrychium having a fertile frond bearing small grapelike clusters of spore cases
  

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Grape" fruit`

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1. The shaddock.

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• (Bot.), a fungus (Oidium Tuckeri) on grapevines; vine mildew.

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• (Zoöl.), a Small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine.

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• noun any of various early flowering spring hyacinths native to Eurasia having dense spikes of rounded blue flowers resembling bunches of small grapes
  

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• (Bot.), a liliaceous plant (Muscari racemosum) with small blue globular flowers in a dense raceme.

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• noun jelly made from grape juice
  

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• noun the juice of grapes
  

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• noun destructive to various grape plants
  Phylloxera vitifoleae; grape louse.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a small moth (Eudemis botrana), which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes, and often binds them together with silk.

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• the cascabel or knob at the breech.

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• noun destructive to various grape plants
  Phylloxera vitifoleae; grape louse.
  

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• noun an isomer of glucose that is found in honey and sweet fruits
  dextrose; dextroglucose.
  

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• . See Glucose.

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• noun any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
  grapevine; grape.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the larva of the grape moth.

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• noun tuberous or semi-tuberous South African begonia having shallowly lobed ovate leaves and small white flowers
  Begonia dregei; maple-leaf begonia.
  

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• adjective satellite having the approximate size of a grape
  

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Is`a*bel"la grape`

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1. (Bot.) A favorite sweet American grape of a purple color. See Fox grape, under Fox.

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• noun European fern with leathery and sparsely hairy fronds
  Botrychium multifidum.
  

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• noun ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries
  mountain grape; holly-leaves barberry; Mahonia aquifolium; Oregon grape; hollygrape.
  

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• noun sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine
  muscatel; muscat.
  

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• (Bot.), a species of grape (Vitis candicans), native in Arkansas and Texas. The berries are small, light-colored, with an acid skin and a sweet pulp.

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• noun small shrub with grey-green leaves and yellow flowers followed by glaucous blue berries
  Mahonia nervosa.
  
• noun ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries
  mountain grape; holly-leaves barberry; Mahonia aquifolium; Oregon grape; hollygrape.
  

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Or"e*gon grape`

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1. (Bot.) An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries.

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• noun ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries
  mountain grape; holly-leaves barberry; Mahonia aquifolium; Oregon grape; hollygrape.
  

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• noun any of several purple or white wine grapes used especially for Burgundies and champagnes
  Pinot.
  

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• noun small blue-black grape of Medoc region of France highly prized in winemaking
  

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Sea" grape`

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1. (Bot.) (a) The gulf weed. See under Gulf. (b) A shrubby plant (Coccoloba uvifera) growing on the sandy shores of tropical America, somewhat resembling the grapevine.
2. pl. (Zoöl.) The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo).

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• noun a grape whose skin slips readily from the pulp
  

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• things which persons affect to despise because they can not possess them; in allusion to AEsop's fable of the fox and the grapes.

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• noun disparagement of something that is unattainable
  

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• . See under Grape.

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• noun well-seasoned rice (with nuts or currants or minced lamb) simmered or braised in stock
  dolmas.
  

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• noun common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes
  vinifera; Vitis vinifera; common grape vine.
  
• noun grape from a cultivated variety of the common grape vine of Europe
  

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