pearmain

1. 1.

   any of several varieties of apples with red skins

   Broadereating apple

Other forms of pearmain

plural

pearmains·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pearmain

What does pearmain mean?

pearmain means "any of several varieties of apples with red skins".

How many syllables are in pearmain?

pearmain has 3 syllables and divides as pe-ar-main under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.