Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woody vine (Vitis rotundifolia) of the southeast United States, bearing a thick-skinned musky grape used to make juice and wine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
muscadel . - Of the color of muscadel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A name given to several very different kinds of grapes, but in America used chiefly for the scuppernong, or southern fox grape, which is said to be the parent stock of the Catawba. See
grapevine . - noun (Bot.) A fragrant and delicious pear.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
Muscardin . - noun (Bot.) a derivative of the northern fox grape, and scarcely an improvement upon it.
- noun (Bot.) a European grape of great value. Its berries are large, round, and of a pale amber color. Called also
golden chasselas .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An American
vine of the subgenus Muscadinia. - noun A
grape variety from this vine. - noun A
wine produced from these grapes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun dull-purple grape of southern United States
- noun native grape of southeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Spoon generous amounts of the muscadine sauce over each one.
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Think of the muscadine jelly as any jelly you may have at home or at the camp.
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I know these are not berries but I like wild cherries and muscadine.
Favorite wild berry? 2009
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John Besh, an award-winning New Orleans chef, shares his recipe for peppered backstrap with muscadine and red wine
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I originally started the honey fermenting Dec. 30, 2008, and racked the mead on Feb. 2, 2009, at which point I siphoned off a couple of gallons of which to make a muscadine-infused mead didn't turn out so well.
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I originally started the honey fermenting Dec. 30, 2008, and racked the mead on Feb. 2, 2009, at which point I siphoned off a couple of gallons of which to make a muscadine-infused mead didn't turn out so well.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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This caused me some degree of consternation, as this was what I'd planned to use for my muscadine pyment.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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Hank's was founded in 1963 by Bill and Helen Hanchey (whence the "Hank"), who brought their notion of Q with them from Rose Hill, N.C. (pop. 1,330, alleged home of the world's largest frying pan and muscadine winery).
Barbecue and Beyond 2009
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Mmmm... nutty, sweet muscadine then drained 1.5 gallons of the racked mead from the big vessel onto the muscadines.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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Hurriedly passing through the muscadine patches and mashing the sugary juices between his toes, he stopped just beyond the edge of the brush, hearing what he thought to be a horse trying to catch its breath.
The Highest Price for Passion Laurinda D. Brown 2008
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