noun

pippin

PIP-in/pˈɪpɪn/

An apple of a variety valued for eating.

The ripe pippin lies beside a cut half exposing its brown seeds.

A ripe apple beside its cut half exposing brown pips, with one loose pip and a small apple seedling rooted in a modest patch of soil, connecting the fruit to its seed-grown origin.

Etymology

The ancestor meant a fruit seed. The name shifted from the seed itself to varieties of apple raised from seed, making the method of propagation part of the fruit’s name.

In context

Zwartbles Ireland Suzanna Crampton0:35

apples baby apple trees grown from seed that are from an apple called the Albemarle Pippin

Transplanting apple seedlings that’ll hopefully be Albemarle Pippins

More examples

These pippins taste sweet with a hint of tartness.
The orchard sells several varieties of pippin.
He packs a pippin in his lunch bag.

Forms

pippin · pippins

Similar words

apple: Apple names the broader fruit, not a particular variety.
dessert apple: Dessert apple broadly covers varieties intended for eating raw.