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Scuppernong

//ˈskʌ.pəɹˌnɔŋ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A large greenish-bronze grape native to the Southeastern United States, a variety of the muscadine grape (Vitis rotundifolia).

    "Plucking an occasional camellia, getting a squirt of hot milk from Miss Maudie Atkinson’s cow on a summer day, helping ourselves to someone’s scuppernongs was part of our ethical culture, but money was different."

  2. 2
    amber-green muscadine grape of southeastern United States wordnet
  3. 3
    A sweet, golden or amber-colored US wine made from this variety of grape.

Etymology

Named after the Scuppernong River and Lake in North Carolina near which the grapes were first found and cultivated. Probably from an Algonquian word. Both senses, "grape" and "wine", are first found in documents from the 1800s-1820s.

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