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Riesling

Other forms: Rieslings

Definitions of Riesling
  1. noun
    white grape grown in Europe and California
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    type of:
    Vitis vinifera, common grape vine, vinifera, vinifera grape
    common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes
  2. noun
    fragrant dry or sweet white wine from the Rhine valley or a similar wine from California
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    type of:
    Rhenish, Rhine wine, hock
    any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage)
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