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• a  resembling the fruit of a grape vine

• Nearly all colon cancers start as polyps, tiny grapelike projections that sprout on the inside of the large intestine.
• Stimulated by hormones, part of the body's chemical signaling system, a ripe egg is expelled from its grapelike encasement, or follicle, in the ovary; in any month, either of .
• Pastel-colored paper globes hung in grapelike clusters, spangled parasols twirled like colored tops, flowery kimonos fluttered beneath frozen comic masks.