RIESLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Riesling mean? 

• RIESLING (noun)
  The noun RIESLING has 2 senses:

1. white grape grown in Europe and California

2. fragrant dry or sweet white wine from the Rhine valley or a similar wine from California

  Familiarity information: RIESLING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIESLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

White grape grown in Europe and California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Riesling" 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 "Riesling"):

Riesling (fragrant dry or sweet white wine from the Rhine valley or a similar wine from California)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fragrant dry or sweet white wine from the Rhine valley or a similar wine from California

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

hock; Rhenish; Rhine wine (any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany ('hock' is British usage))

Holonyms ("Riesling" is a substance of...):

Riesling (white grape grown in Europe and California)