Pearmain
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈpɛːmeɪn/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pearmain is a noun meaning Any of various types of apple, having an elongated shape and often with streaky skin.
Meaning
Any of various types of apple, having an elongated shape and often with streaky skin.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) A type of pear.
Example Sentences
Apples: Drap d'or, Barcelona pearmain;[…].
Sweet fruits are best, as sweet cherries, plums, sweet apples, pearmains, and pippins, which Laurentius extols as having a peculiar property against this disease […].
1826 June 30, Thomas Greene Fessenden (editor), The New England Farmer, Volume 4 [July 1825—July 1826], page 385, If it were not so, why, for instance, has not the pearmain — a better apple than the Baldwin or any other Massachusetts winter apple now known to me — been propagated as extensively, and brought in plenty to our markets?
Word Forms
- pearmains
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include peare, jargonel, pompoleon, pericarp, peridote, pyramis.
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