Crossword clues for pearmain
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pearmain \Pear"main\, n. (Bot.) The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A type of pear. 2 Any of various types of apple, having an elongated shape and often with streaky skin.
Wikipedia
A pearmain is a type of pear-shaped apple with firm white flesh.
Pearmain includes apple cultivars such as:
- Adams Pearmain
- Baxters Pearmain
- Blue Pearmain
- John Pearmain
- Christmas Pearmain
- Claygate Pearmain
- Foulden Pearmain
- Grange's Pearmain
- Hormead Pearmain
- Hubbard's Pearmain
- King Charles Pearmain
- Lamb Abbey Pearmain
- Laxton's Pearmain
- London Pearmain
- Mannington's Pearmain
- Old Pearmain Late
- Winter Pearmain Late
- Worcester Pearmain
Usage examples of "pearmain".
As varieties of the Apple, mention is made in documents of the twelfth century, of the pearmain, and the costard, from the latter of which has come the word costardmonger, as at first a dealer in this fruit, and now applied to our costermonger.
It may be said that there are as many kinds of cacao as there are of apples, cacao showing as marked differences as exhibited by crabs and Blenheims, not to mention James Grieves, Russets, Worcester Pearmains, Newton Wonders, Lord Derbys, Belle de Boskoops, and so forth.