grape
n. countablen. a small, round, juicy fruit that grows in bunches on vines. They can be green, red, or purple and are used to make juice and wine.
n. a fleshy, smooth-skinned berry growing in clusters on vines of the genus Vitis. Used extensively as a table fruit, dried into raisins, or fermented to produce wine.
I bought a bunch of sweet green grapes for lunch.
The vineyard produces several varieties of grapes that are harvested by hand every autumn for winemaking.
While many consumers prefer seedless grapes for convenience, traditional varieties often possess a more complex flavor profile and higher tannin content in their skins and seeds.
From Middle English grape, from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), from graper, craper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish krappō (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European greb- (“hook”), gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). Displaced native Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp.