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Definition of Fox grape
1. Noun. Native grape of northeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties e.g. Concord grapes.
Group relationships: Genus Vitis, Vitis
Generic synonyms: Grape, Grape Vine, Grapevine
2. Noun. Purplish-black wild grape of the eastern United States with tough skins that slip easily from the flesh; cultivated in many varieties.
Generic synonyms: Slipskin Grape
Group relationships: Vitis Labrusca
Definition of Fox grape
1. Noun. The native eastern North American grape, ''Vitis labrusca'', with many cultivars, of which the Concord grape is the most important. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fox Grape
Literary usage of Fox grape
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1861)
"The common fox grape, ( Vitis labrusca.) 4. The winter grape, (Vitis vulpina.)
The grapes have a strong smell, resembling that of a Fox; hence the name ..."
2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"V. Labrusca, the Wild Vine, or fox grape, has heart- shaped leaves, rather 3-lobed,
acutely toothed beneath ; the peduncles ..."
3. Trees and Shrubs: An Abridgment of the Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum by John Claudius Loudon (1875)
"... L. The wild Vine, or fox grape. Lin. Spec., 833. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 634.
; Don'i Mill., 1. p. 711. ; Tor. and Gray, V. tsarina Walt. ; filziger Wein, ..."
4. A residence in France, with an excursion up the Rhine and a second visit to by James Fenimore Cooper (1836)
"The American Fox-grape. DEAR - , A LITTLE incident has lately impressed me with
the great wealth of this quarter of the world in wines, as compared with our ..."
5. Sketch of the Evolution of Our Native Fruits by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1898)
"There are, no doubt, as good forms of the native fox-grape in the woods now as there
... The fox-grape is known to be widely variable in its wild state, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Vine: Embracing Its History from the Earliest Ages to the (1830)
"There is a middle-sized round grape, called Raccoon- grape, which appears to be
much of the nature of the fox- grape. It is black when ripe : has much of ..."
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