English Explanatory Dictionary

Ribston pippin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A triploid cultivar of winter apple with firm flesh and a yellow skin streaked with red.

Word forms

Ribston pippin Ribston pippins Ribstone pippin

Etymology

Named after Ribston in Yorkshire, where Sir Henry Goodricke (1642-1705) first introduced them.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on R Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary