2. Noun. (South African English) Wine made from muscat blanc d'Alexandrie. ¹
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Definition of Hanepoot
1. a type of grape [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hanepoot
Literary usage of Hanepoot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. S. W. Silver & Co.'s Handbook to South Africa: Including the Cape Colony by S.W. Silver & Co (1880)
"Nearly all the Cape wines acquire colour with age, but the hanepoot, which when
young is ... Really good old hanepoot is, perhaps, the finest of Cape wines, ..."
2. Cape Colony for the Settler: An Account of Its Urban and Rural Industries by Alfred Richard Edward Burton (1903)
"A large percentage of hanepoot grafts will die back on it even after a very ...
It is specially suitable as a stock for the hanepoot and very likely also ..."
3. Report by Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Dept. of Agriculture (1907)
"Same quantity solution sprayed did 17 vine* more in about two-fifths the time.
A row of White hanepoot on 1202 has been planted in the midst of a Phyl- ..."
4. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1903)
"THE RED hanepoot GRAPE. The Red hanepoot, which ranks as one of the best export
table grapes ... The origin of the Red hanepoot, I am told, is not known, ..."
5. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1910)
"In Cape Colony, as well as in the United States, certain varieties are subject
to the crown-gall, such as the Muscat of Alexandria (hanepoot). ..."
6. Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New York (1861)
"At some farms, all sorts have been smitten, but the muscadel and hanepoot nearly
everywhere; the only place which has been spared hitherto being that of Mr. ..."
7. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1903)
"THE RED hanepoot GRAPE. The Red hanepoot, which ranks as one of the best export
table grapes ... The origin of the Red hanepoot, I am told, is not known, ..."
8. Bulletin by United States, United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Office of Experiment Stations (1905)
"It is especially suitable as a stock for the hanepoot and very likely also for
the other ... The hanepoot,which is of the Muscat type, does well on it. ..."
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