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RHINE WINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany ('hock' is British usage)
Synonyms:
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))