pearmain

Etymology
From, et al., , , of uncertain origin.

Noun

 * 1)  A type of pear.
 * 2) Any of various types of apple, having an elongated shape and often with streaky skin.
 * , II.ii.1.1:
 * Sweet fruits are best, as sweet cherries, plums, sweet apples, pearmains, and pippins, which Laurentius extols as having a peculiar property against this disease […].
 * 1) * 1826 June 30, Thomas Greene Fessenden (editor), The New England Farmer, Volume 4 [July 1825—July 1826], page 385,
 * If it were not so, why, for instance, has not the pearmain — a better apple than the Baldwin or any other Massachusetts winter apple now known to me — been propagated as extensively, and brought in plenty to our markets?

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