sea grape

American  

noun

1. a tropical American tree, Coccoloba uvifera, of the buckwheat family, bearing grapelike clusters of edible purple berries.

2. the fruit itself.

3. a gulfweed.

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Etymology

Origin of sea grape

First recorded in 1570–80

Example Sentences

Some settled in the Towers, constructed in 1980 and fringed by palm and sea grape trees while boasting a heated swimming pool, valet parking, sauna and tennis courts.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2021

Beheaded palm trees and white sand beaches shorn of their shady sea grape trees testify to Bahia Honda’s location near the eye of Irma.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2018

He owns Rodney’s Crabs, a takeout restaurant on the highway, a few dozen yards from where the gray cinder block remnants of the old Monroe Heights decline in the shadows of sea grape trees.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2016

The ankle-twisting trail to the magnificent Rainbow Blue Hole zigzagged around limestone outcrops and past wild orchids, bromeliads and wild coffee plants, and sea grape, mahogany and brasiletto trees.

From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2015

The sea grape, a few feet tall at the edge of the beach, and higher farther back, grew along the slopes of the hill on all sides.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor