Red Delicious

red delicious English thumb|Red Delicious|right|210px Alternative forms en red delicious Noun Red Delicious A variety of apple which is red in color and has a mild sweet flavor. en w:Aimee Bender Appleless The Color Master: Stories London Hutchinson 2013 3 https://archive.org/details/colormasterstori0000bend_a8c1/page/n14/mode/1up 9780091953898 I once knew a girl who wouldn’t eat apples. She wove her walking around groves and orchards. She didn’t even like to look at them. They’re all mealy, she said. Or else too cheeky, too bloomed. No, she stated again, in case we had not heard her, our laps brimming with Granny Smiths and Red Deliciouses. en Wintfred Huskey 4 Blowin’ It Philadelphia, Pa. The Head & The Hand Press 2014 71 https://archive.org/details/blowinitnovel0000husk/page/71/mode/1up 978-0-9893125-6-1 The first thing Billy did every morning at work was to swing by the main school’s cafeteria in the basement two floors below and pick up breakfast for the Academic Vision Institute: a plastic crate of thirty assorted milks (chocolate, obviously, being the only one anybody ever drank), twenty foil-topped orange juices (“contains less than 6% juice/product of Brazil, Honduras, El Salvador, and the United States”), around ten individually-sealed plastic cereal bowls (plus ten spork-napkin-straw kits), various fruits (almost always mealy, thick-skinned Red Deliciouses and rock-hard pears), and motley breakfast pastries. en w:Steven Grasse Cider https://books.google.com/books?id=s3SqDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT69 Colonial Spirits: A Toast to Our Drunken History New York, N.Y. Abrams Image 2016 978-1-4197-2230-1 These were native to the soil, and it’s unclear if they were used by Native Americans. In any case, contemporary palates—raised on flawless, tart Granny Smiths or Red Deliciouses—would have deemed them inedible, either impossibly sour or garbage-y bland. Translations variety of apple Chinese: Cantonese: yue 蛇果 se4 gwo2 Mandarin: cmn 蛇果 shéguǒ, cmn 五爪蘋果 wǔzhuǎ píngguǒ Taiwan Dutch: nl red delicious m, nl Red Delicious m Finnish: fi Red Delicious -omena French: fr Red Delicious f, fr Délicieuse rouge f Quebec Portuguese: pt maçã argentina f Brazil en retronyms en Apple cultivars