Cape grape

noun

: a tuberous-rooted grapelike vine (Cissus capensis) having very long forked tendrils and red-black glossy fruit in short clusters and used especially in southwestern U.S. as an ornamental

Word History

Etymology

from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where it was developed

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