grapelike

English

Etymology

From grape +‎ -like.

Adjective

grapelike (comparative more grapelike, superlative most grapelike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a grape (the fruit, a bunch thereof, or the plant).

   Synonym: grapey

   a grapelike fruit

   a grapelike plant

   • 2014 September 16, University of Arizona, “News Release: Meteorite that doomed dinosaurs remade forests”, in EurekAlert‎^[1], American Association for the Advancement of Science, retrieved 2024-11-07:

     Caption: This is a fossilized leaf of Vitis stantonii, a grapelike plant from the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota. [Scientist Benjamin Blonder] is especially interested in the venation network of each leaf, because veins may be a very good proxy for temperature via their role in constraining leaf water usage. "Fortunately many fossils have exquisite preservation of veins," he said.

See also

• botryoid
• staphylo-