muscardin

• muscardine

From French muscadin (“a musk-scented lozenge”), from muscade (“nutmeg”), from Latin muscus (“musk”), so called from its odour. See muscadel.

muscardin (plural muscardins)

1. (archaic) The common European dormouse.

• “muscardin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From French muscade (“nutmeg”), from Latin muscus (“musk”).

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muscardin m (plural muscardins)

1. muscardin (mouse)
2. Muscardin (grape variety)

• “muscardin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012