codling
- noun
- /ˈkɒd.lɪŋ/
- Archaic
- She picked a basket of codlings from the tree to make apple sauce.
Examples
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Farmers often sell codlings at the market for use in pies and jams.
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The recipe calls for several tart codlings instead of sweet apples.
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I bought a few codlings for the pie.
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Do you prefer codlings or larger apples?
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She picked a basket of codlings from the tree to make apple sauce.
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The recipe calls for several tart codlings instead of sweet apples.
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Farmers often sell codlings at the market for use in pies and jams.
Synonyms
1
2.8
An apple used for cooking, like in pies or sauces, not for eating raw
A small young apple that is not yet fully grown
Compounds
- Specialized
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8.9
A small grey insect whose young caterpillars eat the inside of apples and damage fruit
How Suitable
Surface Forms
Morphology
codling = cod (opaque) = cod + ling
Although the form appears analyzable as cod + -ling, the relevant base sense of cod is archaic and not recoverable for most learners, so the apple meaning is not predictable from the modern surface form.
Etymology
Codling for a small apple also uses the ending -ling to mean 'little', so it names a small or unripe apple often 'used for cooking' rather than eating raw.