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vinifera
common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World…
vinifera meaning(s)
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- (n) common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes
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- The answer is that the table grape, Vitis vinifera, has become the symbol of the four-year-old strike of California's predominantly Mexican-American farm workers.
- Its new vintner, who grows both hybrids and vinifera, is Mark Miller, 58, a former magazine illustrator.
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vinifera grape
common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old…
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vinification
the process whereby fermentation changes grape juice into wine
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vinify
convert a juice into wine by fermentation
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vino
fermented juice (of grapes especially)
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vinogradoff
British historian (born in Russia) (1854-1925)
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vinous
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of or relating to wine
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vinson
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United States jurist who served as chief justice of the Supreme Court (1890-1953)
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vintage
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a season's yield of wine from a vineyard
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vintager
a person who harvests grapes for making wine
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vintner
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someone who sells wine
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vinyl
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a univalent chemical radical derived from ethylene
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vinyl cyanide
a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene
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vinyl ether
a colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation…
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vinyl group
a univalent chemical radical derived from ethylene
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vinyl polymer
a thermoplastic derived by polymerization from compounds containing the…
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vinyl radical
a univalent chemical radical derived from ethylene
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vinyl resin
a thermoplastic derived by polymerization from compounds containing the vinyl…
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vinylbenzene
a colorless oily liquid; the monomer for polystyrene
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vinylite
any of various vinyl resins
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viocin
a basic polypeptide antibiotic (trade name Viocin) administered intramuscularly (along…
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viol
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any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family
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viola
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any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola
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viola arvensis
common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged flowers