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redstreak

redstreak noun: a kind of apple with the skin streaked with red and yellow, a favourite English cider apple.

Noun

redstreak (plural redstreaks)

  1. A kind of apple with the skin streaked with red and yellow, a favourite English cider apple.
    • the Summer and the Winter, the Yellow and the Red , and the more green Redstreak1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC
  2. Cider pressed from redstreak apples.

Forms of redstreak

pluralredstreaks

Origin of redstreak

Bahuvrihi compound of red + streak

Questions about redstreak

What does redstreak mean?
Redstreak means a kind of apple with the skin streaked with red and yellow, a favourite English cider apple.
What part of speech is redstreak?
Redstreak is a noun.
What is the plural of redstreak?
The plural of redstreak is redstreaks.

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