eating apple

Synonyms:

dessert apple

Antonyms:

cooking apple

an apple used primarily in cooking for pies and applesauce etc

Types:

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Baldwin

an American eating apple with red or yellow and red skin

Cortland

large apple with a red skin

Delicious

variety of sweet eating apples

Empire

an eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh; used as both an eating and a cooking apple

Grimes' golden

yellow apple that ripens in late autumn; eaten raw

Jonathan

red late-ripening apple; primarily eaten raw

McIntosh

early-ripening apple popular in the northeastern United States; primarily eaten raw but suitable for applesauce

Northern Spy

large late-ripening apple with skin striped with yellow and red

Pearmain

any of several varieties of apples with red skins

Pippin

any of numerous superior eating apples with yellow or greenish yellow skin flushed with red

Prima

used primarily as eating apples

Stayman

apple grown chiefly in the Shenandoah Valley

Winesap

crisp apple with dark red skin

Stayman Winesap

crisp tart apple; good for eating raw and suitable for cooking

Granny Smith

apple with a green skin and hard tart flesh

Cox's Orange Pippin

a yellow Pippin with distinctive flavor

Golden Delicious, Yellow Delicious

a sweet eating apple with yellow skin

Red Delicious

a sweet eating apple with bright red skin; most widely grown apple worldwide

Macoun

similar to McIntosh; juicy and late-ripening

Type of:

apple

fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh