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PINOT GRAPE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several purple or white wine grapes used especially for Burgundies and champagnes

Synonyms:

Pinot; Pinot grape

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Pinot grape" 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Pinot grape"):

Pinot noir (red wine grape; grown especially in California for making wines resembling those from Burgundy, France)

Pinot blanc (white wine grape; grown especially in California for making wines resembling those from Chablis, France)

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