Grape

What “Grape” means

Noun

1. A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on female vines of most species of genus Vitis and the self-fertile plants of species Vitis vinifera.
2. Any woody vine of genus Vitis that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.
3. Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera, not necessarily edible.
4. A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.
5. Clipping of grapeshot.

Adj

1. Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
2. Of a dark purplish red colour.

Verb

1. To pick grapes.
2. Of livestock, to develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
3. To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
4. To grope.
5. To envy (from sour grapes).

Noun

1. Filter-avoidance spelling of rape.

Where the word comes from

Inherited from Middle English grape, borrowed from Old French grappe (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), deverbal from graper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), borrowed from Frankish *krappō (“to hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”) or *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”) Displaced 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.

From rape, influenced by grape.

Business name ideas with “Grape”

Industries where “Grape” fits

We suggest this word for 2 business types and industries, including:

• Winery
• Wineries