muscadine
English
editAlternative forms
edit- muskadine (archaic)
Etymology
editUncertain, but probably from muscadel, muscatel, + -ine.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmuscadine (plural muscadines)
- An American vine of the subgenus Vitis subg. Muscadinia, Vitis rotundifolia
- A grape variety from this vine.
- A wine produced from these grapes.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, New York, 2001, p.223:
- All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like […]
Further reading
edit- Muscadine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Vitis subg. Muscadinia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Vitis rotundifolia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons