Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. any apple primarily used for eating raw
WordNet
n. an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking [syn: dessert apple] [ant: cooking apple]
Usage examples of "eating apple".
As with the Squire, however, Jonathan would find that the Moon Man liked the right sorts of things: eating apple pie and cream for breakfast, capering with platypi oa the riverbanks, strolling along between hedgerows, admiring marbles with the Squire and, it turned out in time, investigating the mysteries of kaleidoscopes and paperweights.
Popular instinct long ago led to the association of apple sauce with such rich foods as pork and goose, and the old English fancy for eating apple pie with cheese, an obsolete taste, nowadays, is another example of instinctive inclination, which science has approved.
Nellie couldn't move but just stood there watching him as he sat on the edge of the table eating apple slices.
As they turned a corner and approached another shop window, Nora stopped suddenly and looked around at the crowds on the sidewalks-people eating ice cream in big homemade waffle-cookie cones, people eating apple tarts wrapped in wax paper, guys in feather-decorated cowboy hats they'd bought in one of the stores, pretty young girls in short-shorts and halters, a very fat woman in a yellow muumuu, people speaking English and Spanish and Japanese and Vietnamese and all the other languages YOU could hear at any Southern California tourist spot-and then she looked along the busy street at a gift shop built in the form of a three-story stone-and-timber windmill, and she stiffened .
Red fodder apple becomes gorgeous yellow pedigreed eating apple—.
Recently, however, a friend told me that all fruit seeds contained cyanide, and that he had read an item in a newspaper once about someone who had died from eating apple seeds!
Red fodder apple becomes gorgeous yellow pedigreed eating apple.
Inside, oblivious of all this, are the two highway patrolmen, sitting at the counter eating apple pie with ice cream and shooting the breeze with the waitress.
One time in California on television I saw a contest, many men at tables eating apple pies as fast as they could.
But then she thought about all the things she had done recently without adult supervision--sprinkling crumbs on the floor, eating apple butter, climbing down an empty elevator shaft on a ersatz rope made of extension cords, curtain pulls, and neckties tied together with the Devil's Tongue--and stiffened her resolve.
You can't tell whether you are eating apple-pie or German sausage, or strawberries and cream.