Grāpe'-vīne, n.

n. (Bot.) A vine or climbing shrub, having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing a fruit called grapes, growing in clusters.

The common grape-vine is Vitis vitifera, and is a native of Central Asia. Another variety is that yielding a small seedless grape commonly called Zante currants. The northern Fox-grape 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; whence the name.