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noun small black grape grown chiefly in California; transplanted from Europe
noun dry fruity red wine from California
originUnknown origin; wine sense used from 1896, grape sense from 1880. Possibly a transmission of German Zierfandler, a different wine grape, through a Hungarian intermediary such as czirifandli (now Cirfandli).
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