scuppernong

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Captain Verrazzano described a big "white grape" (scuppernong) that was growing in great profusion at a valley in Cape Fear, N.C. Not only were muscadine grape vines used by the American Indians for fresh fruit and juice, but they were also dried as raisins and preserved as winter snacks, as reported by Captain John Hawkins in 1565 from his sailing records from Florida.

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  1. noun See muscadine.
  2. noun A cultivated variety of the muscadine grape with sweet yellowish fruit.
  3. noun A wine made from this grape.

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  • Captain Verrazzano described a big "white grape" (scuppernong) that was growing in great profusion at a valley in Cape Fear, N.C. Not only were muscadine grape vines used by the American Indians for fresh fruit and juice, but they were also dried as raisins and preserved as winter snacks, as reported by Captain John Hawkins in 1565 from his sailing records from Florida. —  Indybay newswire
  • Responding to that letter the following year, 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh described the mother-vine of the scuppernong (white grape) muscadine with a base thickness of the grape vine stalk of two feet through, and the huge vine covered ½ acre coiling up tree trunks growing 60 feet tall. —  Indybay newswire
  • Muscadines have acquired many commonly used names over the centuries, such as bull grape, bullace, bullets (all based on the fruit being the size of a bull's eye), muscadine, scuppernong, fox grapes, and many others too numerous to list here. —  Indybay newswire
  • My mom used to make strawberry jelly fresh every year so I instinctively eat strawberry jelly with mine, but mulberry and scuppernong come in as close runner ups (shut up, I'm a red neck.). —  doggdot.us
  • (A The common wild grapes of the Northern states Muscadine, scuppernong, Vitis rotundifolia._(A Much used for arbors in the Southern states (Plate XV Ivy, Hedera Helix. —  Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
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  1. After the Scuppernong River in northeast North Carolina.

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  1. American Indian name of Vitis vulpina.
 

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