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grape 音标拼音: [gr'ep] n. 葡萄,葡萄树 葡萄,葡萄树 grape n 1: any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters 2: any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries [synonym: {grape}, {grapevine}, {grape vine}] 3: a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot [synonym: {grapeshot}, {grape}] Grape \Grape\, n. [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}.] 1. (Bot.) 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. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine. [1913 Webster] 3. (Man.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse. [1913 Webster] 4. (Mil.) Grapeshot. [1913 Webster] {Grape borer}. (Zool.) See {Vine borer}. {Grape curculio} (Zool.), a minute black weevil ({Craponius in[ae]qualis}) which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes. {Grape flower}, or {Grape hyacinth} (Bot.), a liliaceous plant ({Muscari racemosum}) with small blue globular flowers in a dense raceme. {Grape fungus} (Bot.), a fungus ({Oidium Tuckeri}) on grapevines; vine mildew. {Grape hopper} (Zool.), a small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine. {Grape moth} (Zool.), a small moth ({Eudemis botrana}), which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes, and often binds them together with silk. {Grape of a cannon}, the cascabel or knob at the breech. {Grape sugar}. See {Glucose}. {Grape worm} (Zool.), the larva of the grape moth. {Sour grapes}, things which persons affect to despise because they can not possess them; -- in allusion to [AE]sop's fable of the fox and the grapes. [1913 Webster] Grape the fruit of the vine, which was extensively cultivated in Palestine. Grapes are spoken of as "tender" (Cant. 2:13, 15), "unripe" (Job 15:33), "sour" (Isa. 18:5), "wild" (Isa. 5:2,4). (See Rev. 14:18; Micah 7:1; Jer. 6:9; Ezek. 18:2, for figurative use of the word.) (See {VINE}.) le raisin[Noun]
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