Cox's Orange Pippin

/ ˈkɒksɪz /

noun

1. Often shortened to: Cox. a variety of eating apple with sweet flesh and a red-tinged green skin

Word History and Origins

Origin of Cox's Orange Pippin¹

C19: named after R. Cox, its English propagator

Example Sentences

Cox’s Orange Pippin is another old variety that originated in England, thanks to a retired brewer named Richard Cox, in 1825.

From Washington Times

Ginger Gold; Cox’s Orange Pippin; Hidden Rose, with its modest mottled skin and startled, blushing flesh.

From The New Yorker

The first tree was raised at Ribston Hall in North Yorkshire in the early 18th century, and in the 1820s it was probably the apple Richard Cox chose to be parent to his world-famous cox’s orange pippin.

From The Guardian

What’s on the horizon: More varieties of apples — including Pink Pearl, Cox’s Orange Pippin and Jonathan — in addition to some early Bartlett and Kalle pears, are showing up, a sign fall is just around the corner.

From Los Angeles Times

People still hymn, with some justification, the complexity of the cox’s orange pippin, which is, variously, credited with spice-like, honeyed and subtle tropical fruit flavours, but how often have you eaten a genuinely outstanding one?

From The Guardian