northern spy

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   large late-ripening apple with skin striped with yellow and red

   Broadereating apple

Questions about northern spy

What does northern spy mean?

northern spy means "large late-ripening apple with skin striped with yellow and red".

Is northern spy a common word?

northern spy 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.