COOKING APPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cooking apple mean? 

• COOKING APPLE (noun)
  The noun COOKING APPLE has 1 sense:

1. an apple used primarily in cooking for pies and applesauce etc

  Familiarity information: COOKING APPLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COOKING APPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An apple used primarily in cooking for pies and applesauce etc

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("cooking apple" is a kind of...):

apple (fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cooking apple"):

Bramley's Seedling (very large cooking apple)

Lane's Prince Albert; Newtown Wonder (apple used primarily in cooking)

Rome Beauty (large red apple used primarily for baking)

Antonym:

eating apple (an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking)