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Ribston pippins

Ribston pippins is the plural of Ribston pippin.

Meaning of Ribston pippin

Noun

Ribston pippin (plural Ribston pippins)

  1. A triploid cultivar of winter apple with firm flesh and a yellow skin streaked with red.
    • […] that the officiating clerk peeled and ate three Ribstone pippins while it was performing.1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 55

Questions about Ribston pippins

What is Ribston pippins the plural of?
Ribston pippins is the plural of Ribston pippin.

Words near Ribston pippins in the dictionary

  1. ribspares
  2. ribsteak
  3. ribsteaks
  4. Ribston
  5. Ribston pippin
  6. Ribston pippins
  7. ribstone
  8. Ribstone pippin
  9. Ribstone pippins
  10. ribstones
  11. Ribstons

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