Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Yielding or producing wine, as a country.

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  • adjective Yielding wine.

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Examples

  • One of the happiest recent trends in wine is the re-emergence, after a generation of exile to the outer reaches of viniferous unfashionability, of rosé.

    Thrifty Summer Sippers 2006

  • He's not a cook or food writer but you can't discuss Provence without devoting some attention to the viniferous and culinary arts.

    Encore Provence 2006

  • He's not a cook or food writer but you can't discuss Provence without devoting some attention to the viniferous and culinary arts.

    Spanish Pork Kabobs 2006

  • Time to broaden your palate, and your viniferous horizons, to deep in the southern oceans.

    15 Five-Star New Zealand Wines 15 Five-Star New Zealand Wines 2006

  • I must leave them to the reader's imagination; but I hardly think I am wrong in stating that there are no grapes in the world more delicious or more viniferous than those that grow in the province of Mendoza.

    Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure Gordon Stables 1875

  • It is also true French viniferous heroes jeer at Australian wine, sneering down aquiline noses arrogantly while choking on statistics saying France’s wine industry has had its day.

    Conceit Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

  • It is also true French viniferous heroes jeer at Australian wine, sneering down aquiline noses arrogantly while choking on statistics saying France’s wine industry has had its day.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

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  • Suitable for or used in winemaking.

    November 19, 2007