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SAUVIGNON BLANC

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A California wine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("Sauvignon blanc" is a kind of...):

white wine (pale yellowish wine made from white grapes or red grapes with skins removed before fermentation)

Holonyms ("Sauvignon blanc" is a substance of...):

Sauvignon blanc (white wine grape grown in California)

Sense 2

Meaning:

White wine grape grown in California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Sauvignon blanc" 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 "Sauvignon blanc"):

Sauvignon blanc (a California wine)

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