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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.
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2. (Bot.) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.
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3. (Man.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.
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4. (Mil.) Grapeshot.
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{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.
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Oidium \O*["i]d"i*um\, n. [NL., dim. fr. Gr. w,'o`n egg.] (Bot.)
A genus of minute fungi which form a floccose mass of
filaments on decaying fruit, etc. Many forms once referred to
this genus are now believed to be temporary conditions of
fungi of other genera, among them the vine mildew ({O["i]dium
Tuckeri}), which has caused much injury to grapes.
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Vine \Vine\, n. [F. vigne, L. vinea a vineyard, vine from vineus
of or belonging to wine, vinum wine, grapes. See {Wine}, and
cf. {Vignette}.] (Bot.)
(a) Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.
(b) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender
stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs
by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing
anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper;
as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons,
squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
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There shall be no grapes on the vine. --Jer.
viii. 13.
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And one went out into the field to gather herbs,
and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild
gourds. --2 Kings iv.
89.
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{Vine apple} (Bot.), a small kind of squash. --Roger
Williams.
{Vine beetle} (Zool.), any one of several species of beetles
which are injurious to the leaves or branches of the
grapevine. Among the more important species are the
grapevine fidia (see {Fidia}), the spotted Pelidnota
({Pelidnota punctata}) (see {Rutilian}), the vine
fleabeetle ({Graptodera chalybea}), the rose beetle (see
under {Rose}), the vine weevil, and several species of
{Colaspis} and {Anomala}.
{Vine borer}. (Zool.)
(a) Any one of several species of beetles whose larvae
bore in the wood or pith of the grapevine, especially
{Sinoxylon basilare}, a small species the larva of
which bores in the stems, and {Ampeloglypter
sesostris}, a small reddish brown weevil (called also
{vine weevil}), which produces knotlike galls on the
branches.
(b) A clearwing moth ({Aegeria polistiformis}), whose
larva bores in the roots of the grapevine and is often
destructive.
{Vine dragon}, an old and fruitless branch of a vine. [Obs.]
--Holland.
{Vine forester} (Zool.), any one of several species of moths
belonging to {Alypia} and allied genera, whose larvae feed
on the leaves of the grapevine.
{Vine fretter} (Zool.), a plant louse, esp. the phylloxera
that injuries the grapevine.
{Vine grub} (Zool.), any one of numerous species of insect
larvae that are injurious to the grapevine.
{Vine hopper} (Zool.), any one of several species of leaf
hoppers which suck the sap of the grapevine, especially
{Erythroneura vitis}. See Illust. of {Grape hopper}, under
{Grape}.
{Vine inchworm} (Zool.), the larva of any species of
geometrid moths which feed on the leaves of the grapevine,
especially {Cidaria diversilineata}.
{Vine-leaf rooer} (Zool.), a small moth ({Desmia maculalis})
whose larva makes a nest by rolling up the leaves of the
grapevine. The moth is brownish black, spotted with white.
{Vine louse} (Zool.), the phylloxera.
{Vine mildew} (Bot.), a fungous growth which forms a white,
delicate, cottony layer upon the leaves, young shoots, and
fruit of the vine, causing brown spots upon the green
parts, and finally a hardening and destruction of the
vitality of the surface. The plant has been called {Oidium
Tuckeri}, but is now thought to be the conidia-producing
stage of an {Erysiphe}.
{Vine of Sodom} (Bot.), a plant named in the Bible (--Deut.
xxxii. 32), now thought to be identical with the apple of
Sodom. See {Apple of Sodom}, under {Apple}.
{Vine sawfly} (Zool.), a small black sawfiy ({Selandria
vitis}) whose larva feeds upon the leaves of the
grapevine. The larvae stand side by side in clusters while
feeding.
{Vine slug} (Zool.), the larva of the vine sawfly.
{Vine sorrel} (Bot.), a climbing plant ({Cissus acida})
related to the grapevine, and having acid leaves. It is
found in Florida and the West Indies.
{Vine sphinx} (Zool.), any one of several species of hawk
moths. The larvae feed on grapevine leaves.
{Vine weevil}. (Zool.) See {Vine borer}
(a) above, and {Wound gall}, under {Wound}.
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