grape family

American  

noun

1. the plant family Vitaceae, characterized by woody climbing vines with tendrils, having alternate, simple or compound leaves, and bearing clusters of small flowers and berries, and including Boston ivy, grape, grape ivy, and Virginia creeper.

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Example Sentences

Arboretum, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia, features plants not often seen in summer shows, such as succulent pelargoniums, wild relatives of the common geranium, and Cyphostemma, succulent members of the grape family.

From Los Angeles Times

He came from a citrus and grape family that arrived in Tustin in 1874 and founded Utt Juice Co.

From Los Angeles Times

It attaches itself to vines of the Tetrastigma plant, a member of the grape family, from which the Rafflesia’s filament-like tentacles suck prodigious quantities of nutrients.

From New York Times

The so-called English or Zante currant belongs to the grape family, and is the dried fruit of a vine which grows in the Ionian Islands and yields a very small berry.

From Project Gutenberg