名词

1. 小道消息;传闻
If you hear or learn something on the grapevine, you hear it or learn it in casual conversation with other people.

2. 葡萄藤
A grapevine is a climbing plant on which grapes grow.

1. gossip spread by spoken communication

e.g. the news of their affair was spread by word of mouth

Synonym: pipelineword of mouth

2. any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries

Synonym: grapegrape vine