Ribston pippin

noun

A triploid cultivar of winter apple with firm flesh and a yellow skin streaked with red.

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Meanings

nounRibston pippin (plural Ribston pippins)

plural Ribston pippins · alternative Ribstone pippin

  1. A triploid cultivar of winter apple with firm flesh and a yellow skin streaked with red.

    […] that the officiating clerk peeled and ate three Ribstone pippins while it was performing.

    1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 55

Origin

Named after Ribston in Yorkshire, where Sir Henry Goodricke (1642-1705) first introduced them.

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Ribston pippin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ribston%20pippin

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