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Definition of Pearmain
1. Noun. Any of several varieties of apples with red skins.
Definition of Pearmain
1. n. The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain.
Definition of Pearmain
1. Noun. (obsolete) A type of pear. ¹
2. Noun. Any of various types of apple, having an elongated shape and often with streaky skin. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pearmain
1. a variety of apple [n -S]
Medical Definition of Pearmain
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pearmain
Literary usage of Pearmain
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1849)
"These also are among our oldest English ay pies, and of which I believe the Winter
pearmain is the type. In this, I suspect, I differ from the Horticultural ..."
2. The Book of the Garden by Charles McIntosh (1855)
"pearmain.—This is an extensive section. The following may be considered the best.
... Colour yellowish red; form pearmain shaped—that is, of the form of a ..."
3. Pomologia Britannica: Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Most Important by John Lindley (1841)
"Although this is called the Royal pearmain about London, it is clearly not the
... We therefore think it right to restore the name of Summer pearmain, ..."
4. The Commercial Apple Industry of North America by John Clifford Folger, Samuel Mable Thomson (1921)
"White pearmain (White Winter pearmain). ... In 1858, however, it entered the
American Pomological Society catalogue as White Winter pearmain. ..."
5. Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and edited by Charles Mason Hovey (1848)
"BLUE pearmain. American Orchardist. AMONG the few varieties of apples which are
generally cultivated in Massachusetts, the Blue pearmain (fig. ..."
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