mus|ca|dine

mus|ca|dine
mus|ca|dine «MUHS kuh dihn, -dyn», noun.
1. a species of grape native to the southern United States, of which there are several varieties, such as the scuppernong.
2. Obsolete. muscatel (wine).
[origin uncertain; perhaps < Middle French muscade (< Old Provençal, feminine of unrecorded muscat) + English -ine1]

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