单词 | mustang grape |
释义 | > as lemmasmustang grape 2. In full mustang grape. The small, reddish, bitter-tasting grape of a wild vine, Vitis mustangensis, native to Texas and neighbouring U.S. states; (also) the vine itself. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > grape-vine > types of wild vinea1382 malmsey1511 malvoisie1517 raisin1573 parsley vine1648 winter grape1670 morillon1691 summer grape1709 Pineau1763 tresseau1763 frost grape1771 muscadinec1785 sweet-water1786 chicken grape1807 scuppernong1811 Marsanne1824 Merlot1825 Cabernet1833 Isabella1835 mustang1846 Traminer1851 labrusca1854 Pinot1854 Catawba1857 Isabel1858 Trebbiano1860 aglianico1862 Canaiolo1862 verdelho1883 vinifera1888 Durif1897 Chardonnay1911 Chenin Blanc1913 Sylvaner1928 Syrah1928 Tokay wine1959 Mourvedre1967 1846 J. Gregg Diary 27 Sept. (1941) I. v. 239 There is a large species, called by the Americans, the Mustang grape which very much resembles the Muscadine of the western country, except in growing in large bunches or racemes. 1858 H. W. Longfellow Catawba Wine in Courtship Miles Standish 187 The red Mustang, Whose clusters hang O'er the waves of the Colorado. 1862 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1861: Agric. 482 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (37th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 39) V The mustang grape abounds in rich soils throughout a large portion of Texas. 1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 539 The most remarkable of these is the Mustang-grape of Texas, Vitis candicans Englem. (V. mustangensis Buckley), with rather large, rounded..leaves;..bearing berries, which in its native country are now beginning to be made into wine. 1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy 6 Along the river grew endless quantities of Mustang grapes. 1961 Ecol. Monogr. 31 325/1 A pair [of black-capped vireos] in Texas stripped bark from a mustang grape about ten feet from their nest site. 1983 C. Middleton 111 Poems 160 Shrub vines, bitter grapes, mustang. < as lemmas |
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