DESSERT APPLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dessert apple mean? 

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

1. an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESSERT APPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

dessert apple; eating apple

Hypernyms ("dessert 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 "dessert apple"):

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; used as both an eating and a cooking apple)

Grimes' golden (yellow apple that ripens in late autumn; eaten raw)

Jonathan (red late-ripening apple; primarily eaten raw)

McIntosh (early-ripening apple popular in the northeastern United States; primarily eaten raw but suitable for applesauce)

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)

Winesap (crisp apple with dark red skin)

Stayman Winesap (crisp tart apple; good for eating raw and suitable for cooking)

Granny Smith (apple with a green skin and hard tart flesh)