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Muscadine

//ˈmʌskədiːn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An American vine of the subgenus Vitis subg. Muscadinia, Vitis rotundifolia
  2. 2
    dull-purple grape of southern United States wordnet
  3. 3
    A grape variety from this vine.
  4. 4
    native grape of southeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties wordnet
  5. 5
    A wine produced from these grapes.

    "All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like […]"

Etymology

Uncertain, but probably from muscadel, muscatel, + -ine.

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