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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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Could we be making up for all our screen time by commanding group bonding between the Idareds and the Golden Delicious?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

Soft apples, such as McIntosh and Golden Delicious, are more prone to becoming mushy when coated in sugar and exposed to high temperatures.

From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2021

The 58-year-old Clark is a fourth-generation Yakima Valley fruit grower who grew up in a bygone era when Red and Golden Delicious apples grown on deep-rooted trees dominated the east-of-the Cascades apple industry.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

MAGILL: Referring to apples, any of you apple growers well know that the Golden Delicious and York Imperial grow crops in alternate years.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association

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