Grape

Red wine grapes in a wineyard before harvest in late autumn

Vitis vinifera

Synonyms:
Raisin, Vine
Grape (Wiktionary)

English

Etymology

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

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