English noun: grapevine |
1. | grapevine (communication) gossip spread by spoken communication |
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| Samples | The news of their affair was spread by word of mouth.
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| Synonyms | pipeline, word of mouth |
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| Broader (hypernym) | comment, gossip, scuttlebutt |
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2. | grapevine (plant) any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries |
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| Synonyms | grape, grape vine |
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| Broader (hypernym) | vine |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | common grape vine, fox grape, muscadine, vinifera, vinifera grape, Vitis labrusca, Vitis rotundifolia, Vitis vinifera |
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| Part holonym | grape |
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| Member meronym | genus Vitis, Vitis |
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