snow apple

plural snow apples · alternative snow-apple

1. An heirloom variety of apple, with white flesh.

   In color and form the Shiawassee Beauty mostly resembles the Snow apple, but attains a larger size and is more tart, hence better for culinary purposes.

   1873, “The Shiawassee Beauty”, in Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society, page 461

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   Hundreds of thousands of the snow apple seeds have been planted, giving hundreds of thousands of first-rate exemplar apples with an occasional superman, like the McIntosh red.

   1915, Robert Tuttle Morris, Microbes and Men, page 478