Clapp's Favourite
- noun
- We harvested the first Clapp's Favourite pears before the end of August.
Examples
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I love eating Clapp's Favourite pears in August.
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The Clapp's Favourite tree produces fruit with a sweet and aromatic flavor.
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Many gardeners choose Clapp's Favourite for its early harvest and reliable crops.
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Have you tried Clapp's Favourite yet?
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Many gardeners choose Clapp's Favourite for its early harvest and reliable crops.
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The Clapp's Favourite tree produces fruit with a sweet and aromatic flavor.
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We harvested the first Clapp's Favourite pears before the end of August.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Clapp's + favorite
The phrase transparently signals a possessive name plus the idea of something liked—'Clapp's' looks like a person/place name and 'Favourite' means preferred—so learners can infer it's an item associated with someone called Clapp. However the specific sense 'an early-season pear variety ripening in mid‑August' (i.e., a cultivar and its seasonality) cannot be derived from the constituents alone and requires contextual or encyclopedic knowledge (the example's ‘pears’ makes the referent clear).
Etymology
Clapp's Favourite may come from a fruit grower named William Clapp who raised this pear and called it his chosen, or favourite, fruit. That's why Clapp's Favourite now names this particular pear that 'ripens early' in the summer.
