Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A variety of apple with sweet flesh, thick red skin, and a tapered shape with five lobes at the base.
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- noun A variety of
apple which is red incolor and has amild sweet flavour
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sweet eating apple with bright red skin; most widely grown apple worldwide
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Examples
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Maybe that’s because growers are pushing Red Delicious, which is a pretty apple that is as hard as, and as tasteless as, wood.
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It never ceased to mystify and sadden India that women could command armies and run Fortune 500s, yet in their personal lives, the best and brightest of them were as hapless and lacking in willpower as Eve herself, who threw Paradise away for a Red Delicious.
One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010
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The sweet, snappy, juicy fruit, introduced in 1991, proved so successful that some growers have dubbed it "Moneycrisp"; they sell for around $2.25 or more per pound, compared to roughly $1.29 for Red Delicious.
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New apple varieties include Fuji, Courtland and Red Delicious.
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New apple varieties include mutsu and Red Delicious.
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It never ceased to mystify and sadden India that women could command armies and run Fortune 500s, yet in their personal lives, the best and brightest of them were as hapless and lacking in willpower as Eve herself, who threw Paradise away for a Red Delicious.
One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010
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A lot of his apples are old school--Jonathans and Northern Spies, Idareds and Spigolds---but they cannot compete globally with the shiny, sexy, easy to transport Red Delicious which only holds up to half of its name.
For God, Family, Country, and the Global Economy. doyle 2009
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I tend to buy red apples, but I also don't like the mealy traditional Red Delicious variety.
Food and Drink 2009
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I tend to buy red apples, but I also don't like the mealy traditional Red Delicious variety.
January 2009 2009
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A lot of his apples are old school--Jonathans and Northern Spies, Idareds and Spigolds---but they cannot compete globally with the shiny, sexy, easy to transport Red Delicious which only holds up to half of its name.
Archive 2009-08-01 doyle 2009
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