often attributive
1
: a smooth-skinned juicy light green or deep red to purplish black berry eaten dried or fresh as a fruit or fermented to produce wine
2
: any of numerous woody vines (genus Vitis of the family Vitaceae, the grape family) that usually climb by tendrils, produce grapes, and are nearly cosmopolitan in cultivation
3
Examples of grape in a Sentence
a bunch of seedless grapes
Recent Examples on the Web
Sicily, Italy Sicily is a paradise for food lovers: from produce like citrus fruit and olives to fresh seafood and wine made from grapes grown on the slopes of Mount Etna.
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Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
Now, it’s added this fresh, juicy rosé made from red jaen grapes (called mencia in Spain).
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 8 July 2024
With candles flickering near the statue, Mendoza offered up grapes, liquor and other sacrifices.
—Beth Warren, USA TODAY, 6 July 2024
As with grapes, lanternfly swarms can kill the invasive plant–but the tree of heaven is a pest in its own right and nothing native depends on it.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 4 July 2024
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Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
Now, it’s added this fresh, juicy rosé made from red jaen grapes (called mencia in Spain).
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 8 July 2024
With candles flickering near the statue, Mendoza offered up grapes, liquor and other sacrifices.
—Beth Warren, USA TODAY, 6 July 2024
As with grapes, lanternfly swarms can kill the invasive plant–but the tree of heaven is a pest in its own right and nothing native depends on it.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 4 July 2024
See all Example Sentences for grape
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“Grape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grape. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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