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Rome Beauty

Rome Beauty

6.3
A large round red apple with a firm inside that is good for baking
  • noun
  • /roʊm ˈbjuːti/
  • Specialized
translation icon : manzana Rome Beauty
  • The Rome Beauty is an excellent choice for making delicious apple pies due to its firm flesh.
  • Rome Beauty apple

Examples

  • For the 6-month experiment, they used four severely blighted, 12-year-old Rome Beauty apple trees that had suffered severe fire blight nearly every year for the past 10 years.

    Academic text (1997)

  • This Rome Beauty apple tree inside an arborsphere at the Appalachian Fruit Research Station in Kearneysville, West Virginia, has been pruned to remove all fire blight cankers.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Many bakers prefer the Rome Beauty apple because it holds its shape well when baked.

  • If you want a sweet and tart flavor for your dessert, the Rome Beauty is the best apple to use.

Surface Forms

Rome Beauty singular
Rome Beauties plural

Morphology

Rome + beauty

This is a lexicalized cultivar name (a proper noun) for a specific type of apple; knowing 'Rome' (a place name) and 'beauty' (attractive thing) does not allow a B1 learner to infer that it denotes a large, red baking apple. The meaning is language- and culture-specific (a product name) rather than compositionally derived from the constituents, so it would be unpredictable without prior exposure.

Etymology

Rome Beauty may come from Rome Township, Ohio, where a farmer found a bright red apple seedling and named it Rome for the place and Beauty for its shiny skin. Because the apple keeps its shape and has firm flesh, it became popular for 'baking', so today the name refers to a large red apple often used for pies and cooking.