grapevine has definitions from the field of botany
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[ noun ] gossip spread by spoken communication

Examples

"the news of their affair was spread by word of mouth"

Used in print

(Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)

Love and hatred and fear were one here , shaded only by fig_trees and grape_vines .

Related terms

gossip

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[ noun ] (botany) any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries

Synonyms

grape

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