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Golden Delicious

American  

noun

  1. a bright yellow type of Delicious apple.


Golden Delicious British  

noun

  1. a variety of eating apple having sweet flesh and greenish-yellow skin

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Tree varieties include Eureka lemon, pink guava, Golden Delicious apple, coast live oak, olive, crape myrtle, California sycamore, desert willow and torrey pines.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2024

The apple went from originally being called the Hawkeye, to Stark Delicious, to finally Red Delicious to differentiate it from the Golden Delicious.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2022

The Washington season generally has two peaks, in the early fall for Galas, Golden Delicious and Honeycrisp, and late fall for Red Delicious, Cosmic Crisp, Pink Lady and other varieties.

From Scientific American • Oct. 25, 2021

Use Golden Delicious apples for any and all recipes, plus snacking, too.

From Salon • Jul. 11, 2021

I have practiced top-working to some extent and for the past three or four years have been able to put down in my cellar, several bushels of Jonathan, Grimes Golden, Delicious and other varieties.

From Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 by Latham, A. W.

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