pearmain — ozdic

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ADJ.

better

PEARMAIN + NOUN

apple

Definitions

noun

1

A type of pear.

2

Any of various types of apple, having an elongated shape and often with streaky skin.

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?

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1

A surname.

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Sweet fruits are best, as sweet cherries, plums, sweet apples, pearmains, and pippins, which Laurentius extols as having a peculiar property against this disease […].

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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 B

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Apples: Drap d'or, Barcelona pearmain;[…].

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In some senses, pearmain is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.