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pippins

pippins is the plural of pippin.

Meaning of pippin

Noun (1)

pippin (plural pippins)

  1. A seed.

Noun (2)

pippin (plural pippins)

  1. Any of several varieties of eating apple that have a yellow or green skin with patches of red.
  2. Any of several roundish or oblate apple varieties.
  3. An apple tree raised from a seed (not grafted) or its fruit.
    • Upon which account ’tis that the Juice of ripe pulpy Apples, as Pippins, Rennetings, &c. that are of a ſyrupy tenacious nature, do detain in them more of the diſperſed particles of the Fruit that by the Preſſure comes out with the Liquor; […]1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, “Some Observations Relating to Cyder”, in The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock...
  4. (dated, slang) An excellent or admirable person or thing.

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Proper noun capitalized: Pippins

Pippins

  1. (plural) plural of Pippin

Phrases with pippins

Questions about pippins

What is pippins the plural of?
Pippins is the plural of pippin.
What part of speech is pippins?
Pippins is a proper noun.

Words near pippins in the dictionary

  1. pipping
  2. pipping at the post
  3. pipping to the post
  4. Pippinid
  5. Pippinids
  6. pippins
  7. pipple
  8. pipples
  9. Pipps
  10. pippul
  11. pippuls

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