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grapes

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.

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.

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grapes

n. (plural of grape English)

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Grapes (film)

Grapes is a Czech comedy film about wine in South Moravia in Czech republic directed by Tomáš Bařina. It was released in 2008. Also exist continuation 2Grapes (in Czech 2Bobule) from 2009.

Grapes (surname)

Grapes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Sidney Grapes, English comedian
  • Steve Grapes (born 1953), English footballer

Usage examples of "grapes".

If on'y they didn't tell me I got to get off, why, I'd prob'y be in California right now a-eatin' grapes an' a-pickin' an orange when I wanted.

Gonna get me a whole big bunch of grapes off a bush, or whatever, an' I'm gonna squash 'em on my face an' let 'em run offen my chin.

An', by God, they's grapes out there, just a-hangin' over inta the road.

I'm gonna pick me a wash tub full a grapes, an' I'm gonna set in 'em, an' scrooge aroun', an' let the juice run down my pants.

Come time we get to California I'll have a big bunch a grapes in my han' all the time, a-nibblin' off it all the time, by God!

An' I don't give a goddamn if they's oranges an' grapes crowdin' a fella outa bed even.

He been talkin' what he's gonna do, how he gonna squeeze grapes over his head an' let the juice run in his whiskers, an' all stuff like that.

An' you never seen such purty country all orchards, an' grapes, purtiest country you ever seen.

Then the first tendrils of the grapes swelling from the old gnarled vines, cascade down to cover the trunks.

And there are the men of chemistry who spray the trees against pests, who sulphur the grapes, who cut out disease and rots, mildews and sicknesses.

Rip the grapes from the vines, good grapes, rotten grapes, wasp-stung grapes.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

I wanted him to see how I had aged, how I’d withered and shriveled up like a fig leaf in autumn, like the bare dangling stem of a cluster of grapes which has been plundered by birds.

The young girls, sparkling like the grapes, had eaten whole clusters and smeared their faces with juice.

Every pauper in Capernaum was sure to have his tiny vineyard for the year’s supply of wine, and each year he transported his crop to this press, trod the grapes and took back his share of the must.