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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).
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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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