A plant or herb resembling grapes or grape vines, or historically, a plant used in grape cultivation or wine-making.
From 'grape' plus 'wort' (meaning plant or herb). 'Wort' comes from Old English 'wyrt' and appears in plant names like mugwort, birthwort, and figwort, often naming plants with medicinal or practical uses.
'Wort' is a fossil suffix—it survives in plant names (mugwort, figwort, St. John's Wort) but sounds archaic in modern English. It's a reminder that English once freely combined words with 'wort' to create plant names, and some of these combinations are still in use centuries later.
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