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RHINE WINE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany ('hock' is British usage)

Synonyms:

hock; Rhenish; Rhine wine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

white wine (pale yellowish wine made from white grapes or red grapes with skins removed before fermentation)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Rhine wine"):

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

liebfraumilch (a sweetened Rhenish wine (especially one from Hesse in western Germany))

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