† pome-apis Obs.
Also 7 pome-appease, 8 pomme d'Api, -d'Apis.
[ad. F. pomme d'api: cf. L. malus appiana (Pliny), f. the name of one Appius, who is said to have grafted the apple on a quince-stock.]
A variety of apple.
| [1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 87 In the olde time the cheefest Apples were..Claudians, Matians, and Appians, so called of their first founders. 1611 Cotgr. s.v. Pomme, Pomme Appie, ou d'Appie, an Apple thats like a Quince, both in smell, and bignesse.] 1664 Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 232/1 Fruit Trees..for a moderate Plantation. Apples..Passe-pome: Pome Apis: Cour-pendue. 1669 Worlidge Cyder (1691) 211 There is a curious apple newly propagated, called Pome-appease... I suppose this is that which is called the Ladies Longing. 1741 Compl. Fam.-Piece ii. iii. 36l Pomme d'Api,..and some Apples of less Account. 1767 J. Abercrombie Ev. Man his own Gard. (1803) 671 Apples... Aromatic russet, Pomme d'Apis, Newtown pippin. |