snow apple


noun

Origin of snow apple

First recorded in 1765–75

Example sentences from the Web for snow apple

  • There's the snow-apple which has red-striped fruit—a chaffinch used to nest in it.

  • Well, I thought of a snow-apple then, and thought you looked the most like one of anything in the world.

    Narcissa, or the Road to Rome |Laura E. Richards
  • Hildegarde thought her more like a snow-apple than ever, and hoped Jack saw how pretty and sweet she was.

    Hildegarde's Harvest |Laura E. Richards

British Dictionary definitions for snow apple

snow apple

noun

a Canadian variety of eating apple