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va·ri·e·tal

[vuh-rahy-i-tl] Pronunciation Key

–adjective

1.	of, pertaining to, designating, or characteristic of a variety.

2.	constituting a variety.

3.	(in U.S. winemaking) designating a wine made entirely or chiefly from one variety of grape.

–noun

4.	a varietal wine named for such a grape (distinguished from generic).

[Origin: 1865–70; variet(y) + -al¹

]

—Related forms

va·ri·e·tal·ly, adverb

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va·ri·e·tal   (və-rī'ĭ-tl) Pronunciation Key
adj.   Of, indicating, or characterizing a variety, especially a biological variety.

n.   A wine made principally from one variety of grape and carrying the name of that grape.

[From variety.]

va·ri'e·tal·ly adv.

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varietal (adj.)

1866, a biologists' word (first attested in Darwin), from variety. In ref. to wines, meaning "made from a single variety of grape" is first attested 1941, Amer.Eng. As a noun, in this sense, attested from 1955.

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