Sentence:  On most of the shores of the ancient Mediterranean, before any historical record, the cultivated grape vine, "Vitis vinifera" Linn., was grown. Its relationship to the wild vine of Eurasia, "Vitis silvestris" Gmel., is uncertain. Its <WSD>pips</WSD> can mostly be distinguished from those of the wild vine, and have been found in Egypt and Syrian Hama from the fourth millennium BC, at Lachish and Jericho in the early Bronze, at Troy II during the Bronze, in the Peloponnesus from Early Helladic, in Crete from the Early Minoan. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a seed inside certain fleshy fruits (compare stone/pit), such as a peach, orange, or apple