grapeless (graples)

[ in the pl., grapes, the bunches of grapes (= MD. grappe and krappe , a bunch of grapes), grappe , crape , a bunch or cluster, esp. of grapes (cf. It. dim. grappolo , a bunch of grapes); grapelet (grap'let), (grap'let), n. [ grape + -let .] A lit- a particular use of grape , grappe , also grafe , tle grape. Davies . = The vine-pest or disease of the grape. The American or downy mildew is Per onos por a viticola, which appears in white, downy patches, chiefly on the under surface of the leaves, producing brown spots on the opposite surface. It also nus Vitis. = E. cramp : There ben vynes that beren so grete grapes that a strong man scholde have ynow to done for to bere o [one] clus tre with alle the grapes . Mandeville , Travels, p. 265. The heathen philosopher, when he had a desire to eat a grape , would open his lips when he put it into his mouth; meaning thereby, that grapes were made to eat, and lips to open. Shak., As you Like it, v. 1. 2. The vine which produces this fruit; the grape-vine. The cultivated grape of Europe, whether it be for wine or for table use, is the Vitis vinifera, of which there are said to be 1,500 varieties. The more common native species of the United States are the chicken, frost, or winter grape, V. cord i folia, the fruit of which is small, worthle ; the riverside riparia, the northern fox or plum grape, V. Labrusca; the southern fox, bullace, muscadine, or scuppernong grape, ape, V. vulpina or rotund i folia; and the summer grape, V. æstivalis. The numerous cultivated table-grapes of the eastern United States are either varieties of these (as the Concord, Catawba, Isabella, Hartford Prolific, etc., derived from V. Labrusca, and the Clinton, from V. rip a ria ), or hybrids of these with each other or with varieties of V. vinifera (as the Delaware, Niagara, Taylor, etc.). The most succe ful wine-grapes are for the most part varieties of V. æstivalis. All the purely American varieties are remarkable for their power of resisting the attacks of the phylloxera or grape-louse, which has proved so fatal to the European vine, and on this account they have been of late years extensively introduced into the vineyards of Europe. V. riparia has been very largely used for this purpose, furnishing either stocks taking upon the which place that of V. species vinifera may entirely be safely or grafted. See cut under Vitis. 3. The knob at the butt of a cannon.-4. pl. In farriery, a mangy tumor on the leg of a horse.-5. Milit., grape-shot. - Black mountain grape, of Jamaica, the Guettarda long i flora. - False grape, the Virginia creeper, Ampelopsis quin que folia. Grape-berry moth, the common name of Eudemis or Grape berry mototricid moth which lays its was in June on berries of the grape, which soon become dis, colored from the working of the larva inside. The larva Grape-berry Moth ( Eudemis botrana ) (cro shows natural size), and Larva of same, natural size. eats the pulp and parts of the seeds of sometimes three or four berries, and transforms to a in a cocoon made under flap of leaf cut for this purposes theodoth appears in autumn as the grapes ripen. - Mountain grape, of Jamaica, the Coccoloba tenuifolia. Sea-grape. (at) The Ephedra distachya of southern Ru ia. (6) The Sarga um bacciferum, a seaweed with large bladders in grape-like clusters. - Seaside grape, a name given to Several species of Coccoloba growing upon the sea-shore, especially to C. uvifera. - Sour grapes, things decried as worthle only because they are beyond one's reach: in allusion to the fable of the fox which, having tried in vain to reach some grapes which grew on a high vine, went away disgusted, saying, "I don't care; they are sour, anyway. occurs on young stems and fruit. The fructification of the fungus consists of conidia borne upon sparingly branched pinnate conidiophores, and oospores embedded in the (See conidium .) It has been very destruc tive in North America, and more recently in southern Europe. The old European grape-mildew is Oidium Tuckeri, in which only the conidial fructification is known, the conidia being borne in a single chain on simple conidiophores. The powdery grape-mildew of America is Uncinula spiral is, one of the Erysipheæ in which the mycelium is spread over the whole upper surface of the leaf, but does not enter its ti ues, and the fructification consists of minute cleistocarpous conceptacles containing asci and spores.