MALVASIA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Grape used to make malmsey wine

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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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