varietal
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| —adj | |
| 1. | of, relating to, characteristic of, designating, or forming a variety, esp a biological variety |
| —n | |
| 2. | a wine labelled with the name of the grape from which it is pressed |
| va'rietally | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
varietal
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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Example sentences
Each is a petri dish parenthesized by ocean, fermenting its unique varietal of weirdness.
The only thing they knew about each wine was the varietal and price range.
The order provides authority for volume and quality regulations and reporting requirements by varietal type of raisin.
Now he has turned his hand and palate to making a cross-varietal blend.
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