'Muscadine' definitions:

Definition of 'muscadine'

noun

Native grape of southeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties [syn: muscadine, Vitis rotundifolia]

noun

Dull-purple grape of southern United States [syn: muscadine, bullace grape]

From: GCIDE

Muscadine \Mus"ca*dine\, n. [See Muscadel.]
1. (Bot.) A name given to several very different kinds of grapes, but in America used chiefly for the scuppernong, or southern fox grape, which is said to be the parent stock of the Catawba. See Grapevine. [1913 Webster]
2. (Bot.) A fragrant and delicious pear. [1913 Webster]
3. (Zool.) See Muscardin. [1913 Webster]
Northern muscadine (Bot.), a derivative of the northern fox grape, and scarcely an improvement upon it.
Royal muscadine (Bot.), a European grape of great value. Its berries are large, round, and of a pale amber color. Called also golden chasselas. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Grapevine \Grape"vine`\, n. (Bot.) A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis, having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called grapes. [1913 Webster]
Note: The common grapevine of the Old World is {Vitis vinifera}, and is a native of Central Asia. Another variety is that yielding small seedless grapes commonly called Zante currants. The northern Fox grape of the United States is the V. Labrusca, from which, by cultivation, has come the Isabella variety. The southern Fox grape, or Muscadine, is the {V. vulpina}. The Frost grape is V. cordifolia, which has very fragrant flowers, and ripens after the early frosts. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Muscardin \Mus"car*din\, n. [F., fr. muscadin a musk-scented lozenge, fr. muscade nutmeg, fr. L. muscus musk. See Muscadel.] (Zool.) The common European dormouse; -- so named from its odor. [Written also muscadine.] [1913 Webster]