muscardin

English

Alternative forms

• muscardine

Etymology

From French muscadin (“a musk-scented lozenge”), from muscade (“nutmeg”), from Latin muscus (“musk”), so called from its odour. See muscadel.

Noun

muscardin (plural muscardins)

1. (archaic) The common European dormouse.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “muscardin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

muscardin m (plural muscardins)

1. muscardin (mouse)
2. Muscardin (grape variety)

Further reading

• “muscardin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.