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pip⋅pin

[pip-in]

–noun

1.	any of numerous roundish or oblate varieties of apple.

2.	Botany. a seed.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME pipin, var. of pepin < OF

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pip·pin (pĭp'ĭn) Pronunciation Key
n.

Any of several varieties of apple.
The seed of a fleshy fruit; a pip.
Informal A person or thing that is admired.

[Middle English pipin, from Old French pepin.]

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pippin

"excellent person or thing," 1897, from coveted varieties of apple that were raised from seed (so called since c.1432), from M.E. pipin "seed" (see pip (1)).

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pippin
noun
any of numerous superior eating apples with yellow or greenish yellow skin flushed with red

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Pippin

Pip"pin\, n. [Probably fr. OE. pippin a seed, as being raised from the seed. See Pip a seed.] (Bot.) (a) An apple from a tree raised from the seed and not grafted; a seedling apple. (b) A name given to apples of several different kinds, as Newtown pippin, summer pippin, fall pippin, golden pippin.

We will eat a last year's pippin. --Shak.

Normandy pippins, sun-dried apples for winter use.

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