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Thompson Seedless

Thompson Seedless

3.3
A green grape without seeds, eaten fresh or dried to make raisins
  • noun
  • /ˈtɑːmpsən ˈsiːdləs/
translation icon : uva Thompson sin semillas
  • Fresh Thompson Seedless grapes are a popular choice for fruit salads and healthy snacks.

Examples

  • I blended a refreshing smoothie using Thompson Seedless grapes and yogurt.

  • Crisp, attractively colored, and harvested only when perfectly sweet, Flame is second only to Thompson Seedless in popularity.

    Academic text (1994)

  • California is famous for producing Thompson Seedless grapes, which are ideal for making raisins.

Surface Forms

Thompson Seedless singular
Thompson Seedlesses plural

Morphology

Thompson + seedless

The adjective 'seedless' clearly signals the key property (no seeds) and 'Thompson' functions as a proper-name label for a variety; together, especially in context with 'grapes', a B1 learner can infer this refers to a named type of seedless grape. Cultivar names formed from a surname + descriptive adjective are common cross-linguistically, so the overall meaning is transparently derivable from the constituents.

Etymology

Thompson Seedless is named after a grower called Thompson who helped make this seedless kind popular in California. The word Seedless tells you the grapes have no seeds, so the name simply means a 'seedless' grape variety.