dessert apple

Noun
  1. An apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking (synset 107755482)
    is a type of: apple - fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
    subtypes:
    • 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
    same as: eating apple

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