Grape Definition

grāp

grapes

noun

grapes

Any of various small, round, smooth-skinned, juicy berries, generally purple, red, or green, growing in clusters on woody vines: grapes are eaten raw, used to make wine, or dried to make raisins.

Webster's New World

Any of various vines (genus Vitis) of the grape family that bear grapes, including fox grape and muscadine; grapevine.

Webster's New World

A dark purplish-red color.

Webster's New World

Grapeshot.

Webster's New World

Grapeshot.

American Heritage

Synonyms:

Synonyms:
grape vine
grapevine
grapeshot
vintage

adjective

Designating a family (Vitaceae, order Rhamnales) of dicotyledonous, tendril-bearing, climbing, woody vines, including the Virginia creeper.

Webster's New World

Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.

Wiktionary

Of a dark purplish red colour.

Wiktionary

Synonyms:

Other Word Forms of Grape

Noun

Singular:

grape

Plural:

grapes

Origin of Grape

From Middle English grape, from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), from graper, craper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), of Germanic origin, from Old Low Frankish *krappō (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *krappô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *grep- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (German Krapfe, “hook”). More at cramp.

From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old French bunch of grapes, hook of Germanic origin

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition