| grape | 1. <botany> 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. <botany> The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine. 3. A mangy tumour on the leg of a horse. 4. Grapeshot. Grape borer. <zoology> A minute black weevil (Craponius inaequalis) which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes. <botany> Grape flower, or Grape hyacinth, the larva of the grape moth. Soar grapes, things which persons affect to despise because they can not possess them; in allusion to aesop's fable of the fox and the grapes. Origin: OF. Grape, crape, bunch or cluster of grapes, F. Grappe, akin to F. Grappin grapnel, hook; fr. OHG. Chrapfo hook, G. Krapfen, akin to E. Cramp. The sense seems to have come from the idea of clutching. Cf. Agraffe, Cramp, Grapnel, Grapple. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| grape endings | An autodescriptive term applied to synaptic terminals at the ends of short, stalklike axon branches. (05 Mar 2000) |
| grape fruit | The shaddock. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| grape mole | <gynaecology, oncology, tumour> A relatively rare mass or tumour that can form within the uterus at the beginning of a pregnancy. The cause of hydatidiform mole is unknown. Symptoms include vaginal bleeding, uterine growth, nausea and vomiting. Some hydatidiform moles may become malignant (cancerous) where they are referred to as a choriocarcinoma. Incidence: 1 in 1,500 births. (02 Jan 1998) |
| grape sugar | See: d-glucose. Invert sugar, a mixture of equal parts of d-glucose and d-fructose produced by hydrolysis of sucrose (inversion). (05 Mar 2000) |
| grapeskin cyst | <radiology> Thin-walled pulmonary cavity, no fluid, most likely to be Coccidioides, ** cavitary lung disease (12 Dec 1998) |
| grapestone | A seed of the grape. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| grapevine | <botany> A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis, having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called grapes. The common grapevine of the Old World is Vitis vinifera, and is a native of Central Asia. Another variety is that yielding small seedless grapes commonly called Zante currants. The northern Fox grape of the United States is the V. Labrusca, from which, by cultivation, has come the Isabella variety. The southern Fox grape, or Muscadine, is the V. Vulpina. The Frost grape is V. Cordifolia, which has very fragrant flowers, and ripens after the early frosts. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea grape | 1. <botany> The gulf weed. See Gulf. A shrubby plant (Coccoloba uvifera) growing on the sandy shores of tropical America, somewhat resembling the grapevine. 2. <zoology> The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| isabella grape | <botany> A favorite sweet American grape of a purple colour. See Fox grape, under Fox. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| oregon grape | <botany> An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |