MAY WINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does May wine mean? 

• MAY WINE (noun)
  The noun MAY WINE has 1 sense:

1. a punch made of Moselle and sugar and sparkling water or champagne flavored with sweet woodruff

  Familiarity information: MAY WINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAY WINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A punch made of Moselle and sugar and sparkling water or champagne flavored with sweet woodruff

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("May wine" is a kind of...):

punch (an iced mixed drink usually containing alcohol and prepared for multiple servings; normally served in a punch bowl)

Meronyms (substance of "May wine"):

Asperula odorata; fragrant bedstraw; Galium odoratum; sweet woodruff; waldmeister; woodruff (Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula)