apple

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(Roget's IV) n.

1.

Syn. Varieties of apples include: MacIntosh, Baldwin, Delicious, Russet, Northern Spy, Snow, crab, Jonathan, Rome Beauty, Albermarle pippin, Missouri pippin, Newtown pippin, yellow Newtown, Rhode Island Greening, Arkansas Black, Wolf River, Fameuse, Gravenstein, Wealthy, Ben Davis, Granny Smith, Grimes Golden, Oldenburg, red Astrakhan, white Astrakhan, Russian Astrakhan, Winesap, Stayman Winesap, yellow transparent, YOrk Imperial, Janet, king, Lawyer, Maiden's Blush, Shockley, Twenty-ounce, Peck's Pleasant, Pennock, Willow Twig, red June, Early Harvest, early Redbird, Cortland.

2. [Something suggesting an apple]

Syn. oak apple, gall, gallnut, nutgall, custard apple, fir apple, balsam apple, May apple, love apple, egg apple, hawthorn berry, Dead Sea apple, apple of Sodom, mad apple, rose apple, hip, haw.

II

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

pome, pippin, fruit, codling.

WORD FIND

• apple of one’s eye: sweetheart, angel, honey,love, cherished one.

• apple-pie order: shipshape, neat, good, orderly, just so.

• bright green and crisp: Granny Smith

• dark red winter apple: Winesap

• late fall variety: Jonathan

• red: McIntosh, Red Delicious, Rome (Beauty)

• red winter: Baldwin

• rough-skinned and mottled winter apple: russet

• Russian: Astrachan

• wild: crab

• yellowish red winter variety: Northern Spy

• yellow, large, with red streaks: Gravenstein