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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 wine
Familiarity information: MALVASIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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