Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A frequent form of codling, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An apple fit to stew or coddle.
  • noun An immature apple.
  • noun (Zoöl.) a small moth (Carpocapsa Pomonella), which in the larval state (known as the apple worm) lives in apples, often doing great damage to the crop.

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  • "Delicious" is marketing hype

    While "mac" marks a plain-spoken type.

    It seems to me "codlin,"

    Is rather too maudlin

    For fruit that you coax to be ripe.

    May 29, 2017