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MALVASIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does malvasia mean? 

MALVASIA (noun)
  The noun MALVASIA has 1 sense:

1. grape used to make malmsey wineplay

  Familiarity information: MALVASIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MALVASIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Grape used to make malmsey wine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("malvasia" is a kind of...):

common grape vine; vinifera; vinifera grape; Vitis vinifera (common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes)

Meronyms (substance of "malvasia"):

malmsey (sweet Madeira wine)


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