Lane's Prince Albert

8.8

A cooking apple with firm flesh and a tart flavor

noun

: manzana Lane's Prince Albert

The tart flavor of Lane's Prince Albert makes it perfect for apple pies.

Examples

Many traditional British recipes call for Lane's Prince Albert apples due to their firmness.
She planted a Lane's Prince Albert tree in her garden to enjoy home-grown cooking apples.
I bought some Lane's Prince Albert apples for the pie.
Have you tried Lane's Prince Albert in your desserts?
Many traditional British recipes call for Lane's Prince Albert apples due to their firmness, making them ideal for pies.
The tart flavor of Lane's Prince Albert apples enhances the taste of any dish they are used in.
She planted a Lane's Prince Albert tree in her garden to have a reliable source of cooking apples every autumn.

Surface Forms

Lane's Prince Albert singular

Lane's Prince Alberts plural

Morphology

Lane's + Prince + Albert

This is a proper-name cultivar (a named variety) so the meaning 'a variety of apple' is not compositionally derived from the constituents 'Lane's', 'Prince', and 'Albert' — these are personal/place names rather than lexical clues to fruit. Plant cultivar names are arbitrary and language-specific; without prior exposure or an explicit cue like the word 'apples' in context, a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would not infer the meaning.

Etymology

Lane's Prince Albert may come from a grower called Lane who named his firm, tart apple after Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria. So the royal name helps you remember it as an old British 'cooking apple'.