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FOX GRAPE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Purplish-black wild grape of the eastern United States with tough skins that slip easily from the flesh; cultivated in many varieties
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("fox grape" is a kind of...):
slipskin grape (a grape whose skin slips readily from the pulp)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fox grape"):
Concord grape (slipskin grape; a purple table grape of the northeastern United States)
Catawba (slipskin grape; a reddish American table grape)
Holonyms ("fox grape" is a part of...):
fox grape; Vitis labrusca (native grape of northeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties e.g. Concord grapes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Native grape of northeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties e.g. Concord grapes
Synonyms:
fox grape; Vitis labrusca
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fox grape" is a kind of...):
grape; grape vine; grapevine (any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries)
Meronyms (parts of "fox grape"):
fox grape (purplish-black wild grape of the eastern United States with tough skins that slip easily from the flesh; cultivated in many varieties)
Holonyms ("fox grape" is a member of...):
genus Vitis; Vitis (the type genus of the family Vitaceae; woody vines with simple leaves and small flowers; includes a wide variety of grapes)
