(n.) A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins.
(n.) The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine.
(n.) A mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.
(n.) Grapeshot.
Example Sentences:
(1) An average of 241,273 viewers gathered round the television (hospital bed) clutching the remote (bag of grapes) staring at the small screen (out of the window).
(2) A solid-phase extraction method with a strong anion exchanger was used to determine these compounds in sweet wines and in grape musts.
(3) Synaptic contacts (GRAY I) are established with the grape-like appendages in the branching zone of P-neuron dendrites.
(4) People were packed "like grapes", as one 16-year-old boy described it.
(5) Admittedly, there has been a bit of sour grapes in the English response to the success of Dempsey et al, and no doubt we will be treading those grapes into wine and drinking ourselves into oblivion if Team USA get much further – they are, as today's typically excitable NY Daily News front page informs us, now just "four wins from glory" .
(6) Davis had earlier declined the privilege of specifying his final supper, so instead was given the institution's choice of grilled cheeseburgers, oven browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape beverage.
(7) Photograph: William Latkin I served these in quenelles with a little green salad and some grape focaccia.
(8) Boiling of spinach, pears, grapes, tomatoes, and wheat, treated with different EBDCs, resulted in 3-30% conversion to ETU.
(9) But in the late 90s, a wave of young Croatian wine-makers started working with malvasia, a neglected Istrian white grape, unfashionable because of its perceived poor quality, and also teran, a better-regarded dark varietal.
(10) More accusations of sour grapes, racism and political interference from (much of) the rest.
(11) Withheld documents · Sale of arms to Saudi Arabia · Special maritime surveillance operations · An improved kiloton bomb · Production of chemical weapons · Chemical warfare policy · Operations Grape and Tiara · Medical aspects of interrogation · Special operations and how they affect deception · Atomic energy: information received from US under military agreement · Nuclear warheads in the far east · Project R1 · SAS regiment: Borneo operations
(12) Main alcohol induced changes include: 1. loss of typical arrangement of elongated spermatids in the form of a "bunch of grapes", dominance of duplicated form of elongated spermatids, to a large extent loss of acrosomal formation: 2. thickening, hyalinosis, and sclerosis of lamina propria with nearly complete lack of Ca++-ATPase; 3. decrease of 3 beta-hydroxy steroid dehydrogenase and 17 beta-hydroxy steroid dehydrogenase activity in the Leydig cells, and 4. appearance of oval or spindle shaped mast cells in the interstitial tissue.
(13) This would allow more sweetcorn, grapes, sunflowers, soya and maize to be grown in Britain.
(14) The growth of Leuconostoc citrovorum ML 34, an isolate associated with the malo-lactic fermentation of wine, was stimulated in part by grape, orange, cabbage, and tomato juices.
(15) It is interesting to speculate on how different our thinking on ethanol tolerance would be today if sake fermentations had not evolved with successive mashing and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of rice carbohydrate, if distillers' worts were clarified prior to fermentation but brewers' wort were not, and if grape skins with their associated unsaturated lipids had not been an integral part of red wine musts.
(16) It’s a part of the American epic immortalised in John Steinbeck’s bitter novel, The Grapes of Wrath .
(17) The profitable Napa wine industry, too, is threatened by wildfires, with winemakers concerned that smoke-infused grape skins will alter the flavor of the wines.
(18) Farm workers employed by apple-producing, grape-producing and grain (control) producing farms in low fluoride areas (F less than 0.10 ppm) were investigated.
(19) Liquid chromatography with both UV-VIS and electrochemical detection is used to structurally classify flavonoid compounds in wine and grape juice without isolation of the pure compound.
(20) With special consideration to the axon morphology we could describe the following neuronal types: large spinefree cells with probably myelinated axons (basket cells), small and medium sized spinefree cells with axons inside the dendritic fields (small basket cells), spinefree cells with axonal arcades, cells with axonal grape like terminal knobs, cells with columnar axons (double bouquet cells), sparsely spined cells with ascending axons (Martinotti cells), bipolar cells, neuroglioform cells and chandelier cells.
Grapevine
Definition:
(n.) A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis, having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called grapes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ministers can glean vital gossip about cabinet reshuffles if they keep on the right side of their drivers, who form the most high-class grapevine in Britain as they wait in the Speaker's courtyard at Westminster while their charges vote in the Commons.
(2) Probe HSV-2 discriminated HSV-grapevine from the other members of HSV group.
(3) A virus with isometric particles c. 30 nm in diameter and angular contour was isolated by inoculation of sap from a Tunisian grapevine with mild mottling and leaf deformation.
(4) Designations which can be used to describe distinct viroids within the four groups include (i) CEVd-g, a grapevine isolate of citrus exocortis viroid, (ii) GVd-c, a grapevine viroid recovered from cucumber, and AGVd, Australian grapevine viroid, (iii) GYSVd-1 and GYSVd-2, two viroids inducing yellow speckle disease and (iv) HSVd-g, a grapevine isolate of hop stunt viroid.
(5) Flavescence dorée (FD), a grapevine yellows disease, is caused by a mycoplasma-like organism (MLO).
(6) Stilbene synthase is responsible for the formation of resveratrol and other stilbenes which function in grapevine as phytoalexins.
(7) Grapevine fanleaf virus, a member of the ArMV subgroup could not be shown to expose crossreactive epitopes.
(8) The coat protein (CP) cistron of Grapevine Fanleaf virus strain F13 (GFLV-F13) has been located in the C-terminal region of the 122k polyprotein encoded by the genomic RNA 2 [Serghini et al.
(9) At the top of the scoreboard were actor Danny Mac and partner Oti Mabuse, who collected 38 points for their Argentine tango to Marvin Gaye’s I Heard It Through the Grapevine.
(10) These comparisons provide the basis for uniform nomenclature of grapevine viroids found in different geographical regions.
(11) We have provisionally named this viroid Australian grapevine viroid.
(12) The primary structure of a grapevine viroid (GVs) isolated in Spain was determined.
(13) Fragments of the putative non-structural proteins (44K and 46K) encoded by RNA2 of grapevine chrome mosaic nepovirus (GCMV) were expressed as fusion proteins in Escherichia coli and used to raise specific antisera.
(14) Not only were father and son considering closing the scandal-racked News of the World , went the chatter on the Wapping grapevine, but its sister paper, the Sun, was also in the line of fire.
(15) Biscoito’s villagers plant their grapevines in tiny lava rock enclosures to protect them from the salty breezes.
(16) The RNA which we have called grapevine yellow speckle viroid (GYSV), contains 367 nucleotide residues and has the potential to form the rod-like secondary structure characteristic of viroids.
(17) A single stranded circular RNA was isolated from grapevines infected with yellow speckle disease.
(18) Therefore, the virus is possibly a hitherto unreported nepovirus for which the name of grapevine Tunisian ringspot virus (GTRV) is proposed.
(19) The complete nucleotide sequence of hungarian grapevine chrome mosaic nepovirus (GCMV) RNA2 has been determined.
(20) PBCVd has highest sequence similarity with grapevine 1B viroid (52.4%), but also contains sequences related to regions present in viroids that belong to different subgroups, suggesting that PBCVd could have developed from RNA recombination between viroids replicating in a common host plant.