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snow apple

snow apple noun: an heirloom variety of apple, with white flesh.

Noun

snow apple (plural snow apples)

  1. An heirloom variety of apple, with white flesh.
    • In color and form the Shiawassee Beauty mostly resembles the Snow apple, but attains a larger size and is more tart, hence better for culinary purposes.1873, “The Shiawassee Beauty”, in Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society, page 461
    • Hundreds of thousands of the snow apple seeds have been planted, giving hundreds of thousands of first-rate exemplar apples with an occasional superman, like the McIntosh red.1915, Robert Tuttle Morris, Microbes and Men, page 478

Forms of snow apple

pluralsnow apples
alternative formsnow-apple

Questions about snow apple

What does snow apple mean?
Snow apple means an heirloom variety of apple, with white flesh.
What part of speech is snow apple?
Snow apple is a noun.
What is the plural of snow apple?
The plural of snow apple is snow apples.

Words near snow apple in the dictionary

  1. snow
  2. snow alga
  3. snow algae
  4. snow angel
  5. snow angels
  6. snow apple
  7. snow apples
  8. snow banana
  9. snow bananas
  10. snow bank
  11. snow banks

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