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Mc⋅In⋅tosh

  [mak-in-tosh]
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–noun
a variety of red apple that ripens in early autumn.
Origin:
1875–80; named after John McIntosh of Ontario, Canada, who first cultivated it (1796)
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Mc·In·tosh   (māk'ĭn-tŏsh')   
n.  A variety of red eating apple, grown commercially in the northern United States.

[After John McIntosh (fl. 1796), Canadian farmer.]
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McIntosh 
kind of red apples, 1878, from John McIntosh (b.1777), Ontario farmer who found them in 1796 while clearing woodland on his farm and began to cultivate them.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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