Red Delicious
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- noun
- /rɛd dɪˈlɪʃəs/
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Red Delicious
- Entomologist Brad Higbee (left) and technician Chey Temple assess codling moth damage on Red Delicious apples.
- Red Delicious apples
Examples
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The customer picked up a shiny Red Delicious apple, admiring its bright color and sweet fragrance.
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Picking in a block of Red Delicious, Caudle was astonished to find a tree in which the fruit was rounder and less red than in surrounding trees, tapered at the calyx but without points.
Fiction book (1999) -
Golden Delicious apples are the second most popular apples in the United States after Red Delicious.
Academic text (1997) -
Occasionally, though, a new variety appears that holds the same promise as the first Red Delicious, the first Rome Beauty, or Granny Smith.
Fiction book (1999) -
"Who could have sent us this, and why?" Tritia wondered, looking at the small box of red delicious apples.
Fiction book (1991) -
"We saw some that looked like Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, and like the New Zealand variety Gala that is becoming popular," Forsline says.
Academic text (1994) -
Red Delicious apples are still a good "eating" apple; just go with the really firm, solid ones, and they're fantastic chilled.
Blog text (18) -
I sample it as I make my way south and find that even his Red Delicious apples, so often bland and disappointing, are unusually sweet and flavorful.
Fiction book (1999) -
Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, and McIntosh, for example, make up the bulk of U.S. commercial production and are fruit immigrants, spread over the last few centuries by people like John Chapman, the legendary "Johnny Appleseed."
Academic text (1994) -
At the market, many shoppers prefer the Red Delicious variety for its sweetness and crisp texture.
Synonyms
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A round fruit with smooth red, yellow, or green skin and crisp white flesh
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'red' denotes color and 'delicious' denotes tasty, so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer this refers to a red, tasty apple (and the example even contains the word 'apple'). Although it is a proper cultivar name, the constituent meanings transparently describe the fruit's color and flavor, so learners can understand the referent without prior exposure to the specific variety.
Etymology
The apple called Red Delicious started as a chance tree a farmer found, and a plant nursery gave it a name to show its bright red skin and sweet taste. So the words red and delicious are literal and tell you it is a red, tasty apple.