Cox's Orange Pippin
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Cox's Orange Pippin
- The Cox's Orange Pippin is often celebrated for its complex, aromatic flavor among apple enthusiasts.
Examples
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She bought a basket of Cox's Orange Pippin apples at the farmer's market to make a pie.
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Gardeners recommend Cox's Orange Pippin trees for those seeking high-quality dessert apples.
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I bought some Cox's Orange Pippins at the market today.
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The Cox's Orange Pippin is known for its sweet flavor.
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She bought a basket of Cox's Orange Pippin apples at the farmer's market to make a pie.
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The Cox's Orange Pippin is often celebrated for its complex, aromatic flavor among apple enthusiasts.
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Gardeners recommend Cox's Orange Pippin trees for those seeking high-quality dessert apples.
Synonyms
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An apple with yellow skin and red patches that is crisp and good to eat
Surface Forms
Morphology
A learner who knows 'orange' (colour/descriptor) and 'pippin' (an apple variety) will readily infer that this is a named type of apple, and the possessive 'Cox's' signals a proper-name cultivar. Although fine-grained qualities (fame, flavour profile) are not predictable, the basic meaning 'a kind of apple' is transparently derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Cox's Orange Pippin was first grown by a gardener named Richard Cox in the early 1800s, so Cox's is his name. People called it Orange because its skin is yellow-orange, and Pippin is an old word for an apple grown from a 'seed', so the name paints a simple picture of the tasty orange-coloured apple first grown by Cox.