Cox's Orange Pippin

British  

/ ˈkɒksɪz /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of Cox's Orange Pippin

C19: named after R. Cox, its English propagator

Example Sentences

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

From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019

The first Cox's Orange Pippin apple was grown locally in 1830.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2014

Now if you search for “apple,” it learns and remembers whether you are looking for an iPad or a Cox’s Orange Pippin.

From New York Times • May 28, 2011

In my opinion it comes next, though longo intervallo, to Cox's Orange Pippin, but it wants good land to make the best of it.

From Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Savory, Arthur H.