dessert_apple (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *dessert apple*:
NOUN	food	dessert apple, eating apple	an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking

English > *dessert apple*: 1 sense > noun 1, food
Meaning	An apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking.
Synonym	eating apple
Narrower	Baldwin	An American eating apple with red or yellow and red skin
	Cortland	large apple with a red skin
	Delicious	Variety of sweet eating apples
	Empire	An eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh
	Granny Smith	apple with a green skin and hard tart flesh
	Grimes' golden	yellow apple that ripens in late autumn
	Jonathan	Red late-ripening apple
	McIntosh	Early-ripening apple popular in the northeastern United States
	Northern Spy	large late-ripening apple with skin striped with yellow and red
	Pearmain	Any of several varieties of apples with red skins
	Pippin	Any of numerous superior eating apples with yellow or greenish yellow skin flushed with red
	Prima	Used primarily as eating apples
	Stayman	apple grown chiefly in the Shenandoah Valley
	Stayman Winesap	Crisp tart apple
	Winesap	Crisp apple with dark red skin
Broader	apple	fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
Opposite	cooking apple	An apple used primarily in cooking for pies and applesauce etc
Spanish	manzana
Catalan	poma

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