Grapevine

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Grapevine \Grape"vine`\, n. (Bot.)
     A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus {Vitis}, having small
     green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called
     {grapes}.
     [1913 Webster]
  


     Note: The common grapevine of the Old World is {Vitis
           vinifera}, and is a native of Central Asia. Another
           variety is that yielding small seedless grapes commonly
           called {Zante currants}. The northern {Fox grape} of
           the United States is the {V. Labrusca}, from which, by
           cultivation, has come the Isabella variety. The
           southern {Fox grape}, or {Muscadine}, is the {V.
           vulpina}. The {Frost grape} is {V. cordifolia}, which
           has very fragrant flowers, and ripens after the early
           frosts.
           [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  grapevine
       n 1: gossip spread by spoken communication; "the news of their
            affair was spread by word of mouth" [syn: {pipeline}, {word
            of mouth}]
       2: any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters
          of edible berries [syn: {grape}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  109 Moby Thesaurus words for "grapevine":
     adviser, algae, announcer, annunciator, authority, autophyte, bean,
     bracken, brown algae, bruit, bush telegraph, buzz, canard, channel,
     climber, common talk, communicant, communicator, conferva,
     confervoid, creeper, cry, diatom, enlightener, expert witness,
     fern, flying rumor, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, gossip,
     gossipmonger, grapevine telegraph, green algae, gulfweed, hearsay,
     herb, heterophyte, idea afloat, informant, information center,
     information medium, informer, interviewee, ivy, kelp,
     latrine rumor, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold,
     monitor, moss, mouthpiece, mushroom, news stirring, newsmonger,
     notifier, on-dit, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte,
     phytoplankton, pipeline, planktonic algae, plant families, press,
     public relations officer, publisher, puffball, pulse, radio,
     red algae, report, reporter, rockweed, roorback, rumble, rumor,
     rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, scuttlebutt, sea lentil,
     sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, smut, source, spokesman, succulent,
     talk, television, teller, tipster, toadstool, tout, town talk,
     unconfirmed report, vetch, vine, whisper, witness, wort, wrack
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Grapevine
       
          A distributed system project.
       
          [Who?  Where?  Why?]
       
       

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Grapevine, AR
    Zip code(s): 72057
  Grapevine, TX (city, FIPS 30644)
    Location: 32.93350 N, 97.07168 W
    Population (1990): 29202 (11907 housing units)
    Area: 81.0 sq km (land), 9.2 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 76051, 76092

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Grapevine, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
     Population (2000):    42059
     Housing Units (2000): 16486
     Land area (2000):     32.279661 sq. miles (83.603934 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    3.576018 sq. miles (9.261845 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    35.855679 sq. miles (92.865779 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            30644
     Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
     Location:             32.935025 N, 97.085784 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     76051 76092
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Grapevine, TX
      Grapevine