grape
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
grape/ɡreɪp/
▶noun
- 1 a green, purple, or black berry growing in clusters on a vine, eaten as fruit and used in making wine.
■ (the grape) informal wine.
- 2 grapeshot.
– derivatives
grapey (also grapy) adjective .
grapey (also grapy) adjective .
– origin ME: from OFr., ‘bunch of grapes’, prob. from graper ‘gather grapes’, from grap ‘hook’ (used in harvesting grapes), of Gmc origin.
'grape' also found in these Oxford entries:
blush
- Cabernet Franc
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- catawba
- Chardonnay
- Chasselas
- Chenin
- currant
- dop
- Gamay
- garnacha
- Gewürztraminer
- grapefruit
- grape hyacinth
- grape ivy
- grape sugar
- grappa
- grapple
- Grenache
- Lambrusco
- Malbec
- Malvasia
- malvoisie
- Merlot
- Muscadelle
- muscadine
- muscat
- muscatel
- must
- mustard
- palomino
- Pinot
- pinotage
- pyruvic acid
- racemic
- raisin
- Riesling
- rosé
- Sangiovese
- Sauvignon
- sea grape
- Sémillon
- Shiraz
- stum
- Tempranillo
- Traminer
- uvea
- uvula
- varietal
