grapevine

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
grapevine
    n 1: gossip spread by spoken communication; "the news of their
         affair was spread by word of mouth" [syn: {grapevine},
         {pipeline}, {word of mouth}]
    2: any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters
       of edible berries [syn: {grape}, {grapevine}, {grape vine}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Grapevine \Grape"vine`\, n. (Bot.)
   A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus {Vitis}, having small
   green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called
   {grapes}.
   [1913 Webster]

   Note: 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.
         [1913 Webster]
from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Grapevine

   A distributed system project.

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from U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Grapevine, AR
  Zip code(s): 72057
Grapevine, TX (city, FIPS 30644)
  Location: 32.93350 N, 97.07168 W
  Population (1990): 29202 (11907 housing units)
  Area: 81.0 sq km (land), 9.2 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 76051, 76092
from U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Grapevine, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
   Population (2000):    42059
   Housing Units (2000): 16486
   Land area (2000):     32.279661 sq. miles (83.603934 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    3.576018 sq. miles (9.261845 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    35.855679 sq. miles (92.865779 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            30644
   Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
   Location:             32.935025 N, 97.085784 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     76051 76092
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Grapevine, TX
    Grapevine
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "grapevine":
      adviser, algae, announcer, annunciator, authority, autophyte, bean,
      bracken, brown algae, bruit, bush telegraph, buzz, canard, channel,
      climber, common talk, communicant, communicator, conferva,
      confervoid, creeper, cry, diatom, enlightener, expert witness,
      fern, flying rumor, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, gossip,
      gossipmonger, grapevine telegraph, green algae, gulfweed, hearsay,
      herb, heterophyte, idea afloat, informant, information center,
      information medium, informer, interviewee, ivy, kelp,
      latrine rumor, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold,
      monitor, moss, mouthpiece, mushroom, news stirring, newsmonger,
      notifier, on-dit, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte,
      phytoplankton, pipeline, planktonic algae, plant families, press,
      public relations officer, publisher, puffball, pulse, radio,
      red algae, report, reporter, rockweed, roorback, rumble, rumor,
      rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, scuttlebutt, sea lentil,
      sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, smut, source, spokesman, succulent,
      talk, television, teller, tipster, toadstool, tout, town talk,
      unconfirmed report, vetch, vine, whisper, witness, wort, wrack
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