pippin(n = noun.food) - any of numerous superior eating apples with yellow or greenish yellow skin flushed with red;
is a kind of dessert apple, eating apple
has particulars: cox's orange pippin
An apple from a tree raised from the seed and not grafted; a seedling apple. [1913 Webster]
"We will eat a last year's pippin." [1913 Webster]
pippin, n.
1 a an apple grown from seed. b a red and yellow dessert apple.
2 colloq. an excellent person or thing; a beauty.
Etymology:
ME f. OF pepin, of unkn. orig.