Word.ws English Dictionary

Ribstone pippin

Ribstone pippin is the alternative form 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

Forms of Ribstone pippin

pluralRibstone pippins

Questions about Ribstone pippin

What is Ribstone pippin the alternative form of?
Ribstone pippin is the alternative form of Ribston pippin.

Words near Ribstone pippin in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Ribstone pippin (page history and authors); Ribston pippin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Ribstone pippin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ribstone_pippin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.