muscadine

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English

Muscadines (red, small) and scuppernongs (green, large) in a bowl.

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmʌskədiːn/, /ˈmʌskədaɪn/

Noun

muscadine (plural muscadines)

  1. An American vine of the subgenus Vitis subg. Muscadinia, Vitis rotundifolia
  2. A grape variety from this vine.
  3. 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

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