grape

Meanings

Noun

• A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.
• A woody vine that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine; of genus Vitis.
• A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.
• grapeshot.
• A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.
• A person's head.

Adjective

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

Verb

• To pick grapes.
• To develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
• To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
• To grope.
• To envy (derived from "sour grapes" idiom).

Origin

• From Middle English grape, from Old French grape, grappe, crape, from graper, craper, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *krappō, from Proto-Indo-European *greb-, *gremb-, from *ger-. Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe, Old High German krapfo (whence German Krapfen. grappa. More at cramp.