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grapes

The correct spelling is grapes.

How to pronounce grapes

noun

IPA: /ɡɹeɪps/

Say it like: Gra-pes

The correct spelling is grapes. A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.

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Meanings

noun

  1. 1.A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.
  2. 2.A woody vine that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine; of genus Vitis.
  3. 3.A dark purplish-red colour, the colour of many grapes.
  4. 4.Grapeshot.
  5. 5.A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.

verb

  1. 1.To pick grapes.
  2. 2.(of livestock) To develop tubercules as a result of tuberculosis.
  3. 3.To develop a texture with small grape-like clusters of a contaminant or foreign substance.
  4. 4.(north) To grope.

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