Grape borer. (Zoˆl.) See Vine borer. -- Grape curculio (Zoˆl.), a
minute black weevil (Craponius inÊqualis) which in the larval state
eats the interior of grapes. -- Grape flower, or Grape hyacinth (Bot.),
a liliaceous plant (Muscari racemosum) with small blue globular flowers
in a dense raceme. -- Grape fungus (Bot.), a fungus (Oidium Tuckeri) on
grapevines; vine mildew. -- Grape hopper (Zoˆl.), a small yellow and
red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the
grapevine. -- Grape moth (Zoˆl.), a small moth (Eudemis botrana), which
in the larval state eats the interior of grapes, and often binds them
together with silk. -- Grape of a cannon, the cascabel or knob at the
breech. -- Grape sugar. See Glucose. -- Grape worm (Zoˆl.), the larva
of the grape moth. -- Sour grapes, things which persons affect to
despise because they can not possess them; -- in allusion to ∆sop's
fable of the fox and the grapes.
Grape" fruit`. The shaddock.
Grape"less, a. Wanting grapes or the flavor of grapes.
Grap"er*y (?), n. A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of
grapes.
Grape"shot` (?), n. (Mil.) A cluster, usually nine in number, of small
iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top
and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to
be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in
canvas bags.
Grape"stone` (?), n. A seed of the grape.
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.
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.
-graph (-grf) [From Gr. gra`fein to write. See Graphic.] A suffix
signifying something written, a writing; also, a writer; as autograph,
crystograph, telegraph, photograph.
{ Graph"ic (grf"k), Graph"ic*al (-*kal) }, a. [L. graphicus, Gr.
grafiko`s, fr. gra`fein to write; cf. F. graphique. See Graft.] 1. Of
or pertaining to the arts of painting and drawing.