muscadine

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun native grape of southeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties
noun dull-purple grape of southern United States

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

FOOTNOTE: [80] Another name for muscadines. — Nights With Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris
---------------------------------------------------------------------- FOOTNOTE: [80] Another name for muscadines. — Nights With Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation, Joel Chandler Harris
To come to the Temple of the Holy Bottle we were to go through a large vineyard, in which were all sorts of vines, as the Falernian, Malvoisian, the Muscadine, those of Taige, Beaune, Mirevaux, Orleans, Picardent, Arbois, Coussi, Anjou, Grave, Corsica, Vierron, Nerac, and others. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais

Vitis rotundifolia

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