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GRAPE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

grape; grapeshot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

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

Sense 2

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 3

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

grape; grape vine; grapevine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I'm so full of happiness, that if Father was only here, I couldn't hold one drop more, said Beth, quite sighing with contentment as Jo carried her off to the study to rest after the excitement, and to refresh herself with some of the delicious grapes the 'Jungfrau' had sent her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Yet it was merely a very pretty drawing-room, and within it a boudoir, both spread with white carpets, on which seemed laid brilliant garlands of flowers; both ceiled with snowy mouldings of white grapes and vine-leaves, beneath which glowed in rich contrast crimson couches and ottomans; while the ornaments on the pale Parian mantelpiece were of sparkling Bohemian glass, ruby red; and between the windows large mirrors repeated the general blending of snow and fire.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It crushed them into the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the false ardours and exaltations and undue self-values of the human soul, until they perceived themselves finite and small, specks and motes, moving with weak cunning and little wisdom amidst the play and inter-play of the great blind elements and forces.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

An oligomeric proanthocyanidin extracted from grape seeds.

(IH636 Grape Seed Proanthocyanidin Extract, NCI Thesaurus)

Here were two with wrists and sleeves all spotted with the ruddy grape juice.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Upon administration, muscadine grape skin extract (MSKE) appears to inhibit PI3K/Akt and MAPK signaling, eventually leading to apoptosis and a reduction in tumor cell proliferation.

(Muscadine Grape Skin Extract, NCI Thesaurus)

Grape seed oil is used in cooking and cosmetics and for medicinal purposes.

(Grape Seed Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Hamburg grapes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mr. Spenlow being a little drowsy after the champagne—honour to the soil that grew the grape, to the grape that made the wine, to the sun that ripened it, and to the merchant who adulterated it!—and being fast asleep in a corner of the carriage, I rode by the side and talked to Dora.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A nutritional supplement containing an extract of the skin of Muscadine grape (Vitis rotundifolia), with anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and potential chemopreventive activities.

(Muscadine Grape Skin Extract, NCI Thesaurus)