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muscadine

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Word definitions for muscadine in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Muscardin \Mus"car*din\, n. [F., fr. muscadin a musk-scented lozenge, fr. muscade nutmeg, fr. L. muscus musk. See Muscadel .] (Zo["o]l.) The common European dormouse; -- so named from its odor.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. native grape of southeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties [syn: Vitis rotundifolia ] dull-purple grape of southern United States [syn: bullace grape ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An American vine of the subgenus (taxlink Vitis subg. Muscadinia subgenus noshow=1), (taxlink Vitis rotundifolia species noshow=1) 2 A grape variety from this vine. 3 A wine produced from these grapes.

Usage examples of muscadine.

Tessa Ann Bowlby accused a graduate student in theater arts named Reed Muscadine of date rape.

Here their stories diverged: Bowlby claimed she wanted things to go no further but Muscadine got on top of her and entered her by force.

As I was saying, Mr Muscadine, the precise details may never be known because there were no witnesses.

What do you think of Hope asking that acting student - Muscadine - to take an AIDS test?

Math for Humanities Majors, and Reed Muscadine, the theater-arts grad student, was participating in something called Performance Seminar 201B a half-mile away in MacManus Hall on the north end of the campus.

Dirkhoff had been distressed because Muscadine had dropped out to take a job on a soap opera.

Hope came face-to-face with Muscadine, big and strong and healthy and no family ties.

The more compatibility factors the better, but kidney transplants are often done just on the basis of an ABO match, and both Kruvinski and Muscadine were O-positive, the most common type.

Almost hoping Muscadine would walk so that Big Micky could apply his own brand of justice.

Against a setting of white narcissi, white trellis-work bowers, and lighted tapers in silver sconces festooned with bunches of faux black Muscadine grapes bedecked with spiralling silver ribbon, Mrs.

As for the muscadine, that loss will soon be repaired, the more gladly as your friend here will help us to drink it.

It is not ale, or strong waters, I promise you, that those gentles drink, but Priniac, Languedoc, Tent, Muscadine, Chiante, and Tokay--never a flask under the half-guinea.

Bordeaux with us, that you may drain a cup of muscadine and sup at our table?

Come, drink a stoup of muscadine with me, mes anges, for my heart is warm to be among ye again.

Along with the mesquite, there was the usual Texas products of stunted post oak and cedar breaks, greasewood and brambles of briars and muscadine grapevines and patches of wild plum trees.