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plural raisins
A dried grape. quotations examples
Some of the fruit had turned black and shrunken — becoming, effectively, absurdly high-cost raisins.
2021 July 18, Christopher Flavelle, “Scorched, Parched and Now Uninsurable: Climate Change Hits Wine Country”, in The New York Times
third-person singular simple present raisins, present participle raisining, simple past and past participle raisined
(intransitive) Of grapes: to dry out; to become like raisins. quotations examples
Second-crop fruit tends to show smaller clusters than first-crop, to have a high skin-to-juice ratio, and to be a good blending tool, according to Iantosca, although care must be exercised to ensure that the second-crop berries have not raisined.
2008, John Winthrop Haeger, Pacific Pinot Noir