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  • She says the jelly, made from the purplish blooms of the vines, has a sweet, grape-like taste.

    Kudzu-eating bugs: Good news or bad? 2011

  • The big surprise is that it turns out modern penguins have large melanosomes packed into grape-like clusters, unlike those of any other known bird, while the extinct giant penguin's smaller melanosomes resembled those of other birds, Clarke said.

    Inkayacu Paracasensis: Giant 'Water King' Penguin, 5 Feet Tall, Discovered In Peru From 36 Million Years Ago AP 2010

  • There were one or two honest bananas and oranges, and some grape-like things, but the others were bulging and blue, mottled, iridescent vermilion and green, and at least seven varieties of red.

    Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth 2010

  • She also grows jaboticaba, whose grape-like fruits make a lovely liqueur.

    One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

  • The perfume has a grape-like aroma, similar to the scent of a blue or purple Iris, and also reminds me of another Asian plant that grows where I live, the Chinese Empress Tree, whose flowers look like upright Wisteria and are very sweetly scented.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Marina Geigert 2009

  • The perfume has a grape-like aroma, similar to the scent of a blue or purple Iris, and also reminds me of another Asian plant that grows where I live, the Chinese Empress Tree, whose flowers look like upright Wisteria and are very sweetly scented.

    A sense of place: The Richmond fragrances of Modern Atelier Marina Geigert 2009

  • Within closed quarters, these grape-like clusters of blue, pink or white flowers may be overbearing, but outdoors in the gardens on the typical chilly spring days, they are green, fresh and beautiful and positively intoxicating.

    Olfactory Quilt: Spring 2008 in Vancouver Ayala Sender 2008

  • Within closed quarters, these grape-like clusters of blue, pink or white flowers may be overbearing, but outdoors in the gardens on the typical chilly spring days, they are green, fresh and beautiful and positively intoxicating.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Ayala Sender 2008

  • A quick google search indicated that kudzu flowers give off a grape-like scent.

    The Afternoon Smelled Like Dimetapp vuboq 2006

  • Gideon Spilett was at first surprised at the odor which exhaled from certain plants with straight stalks, round and branchy, bearing grape-like clusters of flowers and very small berries.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

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