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Amber-green muscadine grape of southeastern United States
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scuppernong
Word definitions for scuppernong in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scuppernong \Scup"per*nong\ (sk[u^]p"p[~e]r*n[o^]ng), n. [Probably of American Indian origin.] (Bot.) An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina , found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A large greenish-bronze grape native to the Southeastern United States, a variety of the muscadine grape (''Vitis rotundifolia''). 2 A sweet, golden or amber-colored US wine made from this variety of grape.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cultivated muscadine grape vine, 1811, from name of a river in North Carolina, U.S., recorded 18c. as Cascoponung , Cuscopang , from an unidentified American Indian word.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The scuppernong is a large variety of muscadine ( Vitis rotundifolia ), a species of grape native to the Southern United States. It is usually a greenish or bronze color and is similar in appearance and texture to a white grape, but rounder and larger and ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. amber-green muscadine grape of southeastern United States
Usage examples of scuppernong.
Finch, Maudie Atkinson told me you broke down her scuppernong arbor this morning.
A small man wearing a bow tie stood on the other side of a wooden counter, nearly lost behind a barricade of scuppernong jelly and Sweet Fire pickles.
He had said scuppernong would thrive in this soil because it was sandy.
Jennifer and Eugene were breathing hard when he veered completely off the trail and disappeared into a thick wall of honeysuckle and scuppernong vines.
Enormous clusters of wild scuppernong grapes had been hung from the rafters, drying slowly into raisins.
Magnolia Cafe over a hot breakfast of eggs, bacon, grits, biscuits, coffee and scuppernong jelly.
The women brought cakes and scuppernong wine, the men brandy from the smuggler boats that still plied the Gulf.
She has apple and fig trees, and scuppernong grape vines grow rank and try to climb all her trees.
I had my attention on a display of plump scuppernongs when out of the corner of my eye, I saw Connie Peters.
And it was these very memories, the containers for the missing sacraments of scuppernongs and spring water and country hams that were threatened by the new North Carolina, a place that seemed to be arriving first and foremost at Duke University.
The wines and liqueurs and champagnes of New Orleans were new and exhilarating to her, acquainted with only homemade blackberry and scuppernong vintages and Aunt Pitty’s “swoon” brandy.
The wines and liqueurs and champagnes of New Orleans were new and exhilarating to her, acquainted with only homemade blackberry and scuppernong vintages and Aunt Pitty’.