Meaning of pearmain | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type of pear.
   obsolete
2. A surname.
3. Any of various types of apple, having an elongated shape and often with streaky skin.

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Examples

“Sweet fruits are best, as sweet cherries, plums, sweet apples, pearmains, and pippins, which Laurentius extols as having a peculiar property against this disease […].”

“1826 June 30, Thomas Greene Fessenden (editor), The New England Farmer, Volume 4 [July 1825—July 1826], page 385, If it were not so, why, for instance, has not the pearmain — a better apple than the Baldwin or any other Massachusetts winter apple now known to me — been propagated as extensively, and brought in plenty to our markets?”

“Apples: Drap d'or, Barcelona pearmain;[…].”

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