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