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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small tropical American tree (Coccoloba uvifera) growing on sandy beaches and having large, leathery, rounded leaves and edible purplish fruit arranged in grapelike clusters.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
grape . - noun The grape-tree or seaside grape, Coccoloba uvifera. See
grape-tree . - noun A glasswort, Salicornia herbacea.
- noun 4. plural The clustered egg-cases of squids, cuttles, and other cephalopods. Sometimes they are numerous enough to choke the dredges and interfere with oystering.
- noun The salt-grape (which see, under
grape ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- The gulf weed. See under
gulf . - A shrubby plant (
Coccoloba uvifera ) growing on the sandy shores of tropical America, somewhat resembling the grapevine. - (Zoöl.) The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
tree , Coccolobis uvifera, that grows on sandy beaches in tropicalAmerica ; it has clusters ofpurple fruit - noun The gulf weed.
- noun The clusters of
gelatinous egg capsules of asquid (Loligo).
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chained_bear commented on the word sea grape
"Sea grapes and mangroves tangled the shoreline, where white sand sloped toward a green-blue ocean."
—Molly Caldwell Crosby, The American Plague (New York: Berkeley Books, 2006), 127
October 6, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word sea grape
"Pet name for the newly discovered Gromia sphaerica." --"Jargon Watch," Wired (17.04, 24)
April 30, 2009
bilby commented on the word sea grape
17th of April, 2024? I'm slow.
April 30, 2009
ecbrenner commented on the word sea grape
It's from issue 17.04 on p. 24.
June 26, 2009
dontcry commented on the word sea grape
I saw sea grapes for the first time a couple of years ago on the shore at a beach in Punta Cana.
June 26, 2009