EATING APPLE

Pronunciation (US):

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

1. an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking

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

• EATING APPLE (noun)

Meaning:

An apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

dessert apple; eating apple

Hypernyms ("eating 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 "eating apple"):

Baldwin (an American eating apple with red or yellow and red skin)

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

Winesap (crisp apple with dark red skin)

Stayman (apple grown chiefly in the Shenandoah Valley)

Prima (used primarily as eating apples)

Pippin (any of numerous superior eating apples with yellow or greenish yellow skin flushed with red)

Pearmain (any of several varieties of apples with red skins)

Northern Spy (large late-ripening apple with skin striped with yellow and red)

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

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

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

Empire (an eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh; used as both an eating and a cooking apple)

Delicious (variety of sweet eating apples)

Cortland (large apple with a red skin)

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

Antonym:

cooking apple (an apple used primarily in cooking for pies and applesauce etc)