fox grape

noun

1. native grape of northeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties e.g. Concord grapes

• Syn: ↑Vitis labrusca

• Hypernyms: ↑grape, ↑grapevine, ↑grape vine

• Member Holonyms: ↑Vitis, ↑genus Vitis

2. purplish-black wild grape of the eastern United States with tough skins that slip easily from the flesh; cultivated in many varieties

• Hypernyms: ↑slipskin grape

• Hyponyms: ↑Concord grape, ↑Catawba

• Part Holonyms: ↑Vitis labrusca

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noun

: any of several native grapes of eastern No. America with foxy fruit of sour or musky flavor: as

a. : muscadine 2

b. : chicken grape

c. : a tall-growing grape (Vitis labrusca) that has heavily tomentose young growth and compact thyrses of bluish black to pink or greenish white fruits which are sharp and acid until fully ripe and that is an ancestor of most hardy American cultivated grapes

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1. a vine, Vitis labrusca, chiefly of the northeastern U.S., from which numerous cultivated grape varieties have been developed.

2. the usually purplish-black, thick-skinned, sweet, musky fruit of this vine.

[1630-40, Amer.]

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fox grape,

any one of several varieties of North American wild grapes that have a musky or foxy scent.

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n. a wild grape-bearing vine native to the eastern U.S. Also called labrusca, isabella