Толковый словарь английского языка - grape
Grape
grape
noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ~ ~ stalk, bunch of ~s, ~, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German krāpfo hook Date: 14th century a smooth-skinned juicy greenish-white to deep red or purple berry eaten dried or fresh as a fruit or fermented to produce wine, any of numerous woody vines (genus Vitis of the family Vitaceae, the ~ family) that usually climb by tendrils, produce clustered fruits that are ~s, and are nearly cosmopolitan in cultivation, ~shot , ~like adjective
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n. 1 a berry (usu. green, purple, or black) growing in clusters on a vine, used as fruit and in making wine. 2 (prec. by the) colloq. wine. 3 = GRAPESHOT. 4 (in pl.) a diseased growth like a bunch of grapes on the pastern of a horse etc., or on a pleura in cattle. Phrases and idioms grape hyacinth any liliaceous plant of the genus Muscari, with clusters of usu. blue flowers. grape-sugar dextrose. Derivatives grapey adj. (also grapy). Etymology: ME f. OF grape bunch of grapes prob. f. graper gather (grapes) f. grap(p)e hook, ult. f. Gmc ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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