dessert apple

Questions about dessert apple

What does dessert apple mean?

dessert apple means "an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking".

What is another word for dessert apple?

Close synonyms include eating apple. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dessert apple a common word?

dessert apple is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.