grapple plant

English

Noun

grapple plant (plural grapple plants)

  1. A South African herb (Uncarina leptocarpa) with woody fruits armed with long hooked or barbed thorns by which they adhere to cattle.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for grapple plant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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