sea grape

See also: seagrape

English

, sea grape.

Noun

sea grape (countable and uncountable, plural sea grapes)

1. A small tree, , that grows on sandy beaches in tropical America; it has clusters of purple fruit.
2. A leafless plant found in sandy soils along the coast and inland from southern and central Europe to central Asia, , which has edible fruit and is harvested for the ephedrine found in its green stems.
3. (UK, Ireland) Any plant in the genus Ephedra, especially those native to Europe and neighboring parts of Africa and Asia.
4. Seaweeds in the genus , eaten in Southeast Asia, especially and .
5. Gulfweed, a kind of brown alga (Sargassum).
6. The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo).
7. Any animal in the genus , bottom-dwelling sea squirts that look like peeled grapes.

Translations

Coccoloba uvifera

• Portuguese: baga-da-praia f
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gulfweed — see gulfweed

clusters of Loligo squid egg capsules

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any animal in the genus Molgula

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sea grape”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

References

• sea grape on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “sea grape”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “sea grape”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• præsage