Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to oenology, the study of wine
Etymologies
- oenology + -ical (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Casting his powerfully subversive, silent gaze round the table as a wine master held forth, Baker seemed determined to get his fellow members to "corpse": he had no time whatever for oenological waffle.”
“Italy was being born and, paradoxically, 'our' people had a much broader conception of oenological boundaries than we seem to have today.”
The Wall Street Journal: For Italians, Summer Starts at the Beach
“Bedeviled by rogue yeasts and other oenological disasters, the two men at times thought they might lose their sanity and their business, Browne says.”
The Washington Post: California cult-wine makers pursue label of exclusivity
“Just another act of oenological masturbation -- only satisfying or useful for one or a small group of people.”
“It did not help that the University of California at Davis, the Oxford and Cambridge of American oenological science, had shut down all its wine work during the 1920s.”
“Esposito's book is part autobiography, part travel story, part food diary, and part oenological tale.”
“Cabinet has approved the agreement on mutual acceptance of oenological practices and the World Wine Trade Group's agreement on requirements for wine labelling.”
“In another facet of scent & pleasure, the oenological realm is confirming a distinct note to be found in wine: baby poop.”
“Generally, young wines in this range are priced at a steep discount to the 99- and 100-point oenological stars.”
“Along with her husband, Emilio Rodriguez Canas, also a celebrated winemaker, the two constitute the region's oenological power couple.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘oenological’.
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AGRI - wine sector
Terms used in the EU's Common Agricultural Policy referring to policy issues in the wine sector.
HU translations: abandoned wine-gr..., aeration, ageing, blending of wines, chaptalisation, charcoal, compulsory distil..., concentrated grap..., coupage, crisis distillation, crushed / not cru..., designation of or... and 50 more... -
bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
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andrew.simone's Words
elan, prestidigitation, flummoxed, autochthonous, missive, hoi polloi, schadenfreude, frou-frou, oolong, burleseque, ontic, etymology and 165 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Words from Table Talk's "Five Words" ...
The 5 words contest is a parlor game where people respond to the challenge to come up with a sentence which contains 5 specified words determined by the challenger (and makes a degree of sense). Sa...
mirage, bedecked, breasts, prairie dog, canyon, eau-de-vie, kinkajou, xiphoid, oubliette, quorum, president, atrocities and 62 more...
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oenological
There are certainly some words missing but I am trying to avoid listing the obvious. If a simpler word is found here, then it is used in an atypical fashion.
This list was helpful in the...scuppernong, oenological, viticulture, oaky, legs, nose, bouquet, gewürztraminer, acetic, finish, appellation, angular and 54 more...
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