Brandywine

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See also: brandywine

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Not known with certainty; so named since the 17th century; several long-held hypotheses exist, including a story of casks of brandywine that were spilled in the river's mouth in the colonial era, a fancied resemblance of the turbid water's color to that of brandywine, and an early Euro-American settler whose surname was similar to brandewijn or brandywine.

Proper noun

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Brandywine

  1. A stream in Pennsylvania and Delaware (variously called the Brandywine Creek, the Brandywine River, and often just the Brandywine).

Etymology 2

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Unknown; the plant variety has been traced back far into the 19th century by seed savers, but the origin of its name is lost; speculations include the possibility that the fruit's color was likened to that of brandywine, or that the variety was bred in the Brandywine Valley.

Noun

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Brandywine (plural Brandywines)

  1. An heirloom cultivar of tomato with large potato-leaved foliage and large pink fruit.