Word Meanings - GRAVENSTEIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality.

Related words: (words related to GRAVENSTEIN)

• ORANGEADE
  A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• MARKETER
  One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
• MARKETSTEAD
  A market place. Drayton.
• QUALITY
  1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank. We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest
• MARK
  A license of reprisals. See Marque.
• FLAVORED
  Having a distinct flavor; as, high-flavored wine.
• FLAVORLESS
  Without flavor; tasteless.
• MARKSMAN
  One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents. Burrill. (more info) 1. One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.
• MARKABLE
  Remarkable. Sandys.
• MARKIS
  A marquis. Chaucer.
• ORANGEISM
  Attachment to the principles of the society of Orangemen; the tenets or practices of the Orangemen.
• ORANGEMAN
  One of a secret society, organized in the north of Ireland in 1795, the professed objects of which are the defense of the regning sovereign of Great Britain, the support of the Protestant religion, the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.;
• APPLE
  Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree. 3. Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple , balsam apple, egg apple, oak
• MARKER
  One who or that which marks. Specifically: One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards. A counter used in card playing and other games. The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment. An
• ORANGETAWNY
  Deep orange-yellow; dark yellow. Shak.
• MARKISESSE
  A marchioness. Chaucer.
• APPLE-JOHN
  A kind of apple which by keeping becomes much withered; -- called also Johnapple. Shak.
• EXCELLENT
  1. Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims,
• MARKEE
  See MARQUEE
• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• SEAMARK
  Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak.
• BOOKMARK
  Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.
• COMMARK
  The frontier of a country; confines. Shelton.
• PINEAPPLE
  A tropical plant ; also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.
• REMARKER
  One who remarks.
• INEQUALITY
  An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
• FOOTMARK
  A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
• SWANMARK
  A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan. Encyc. Brit.
• NEWMARKET
  A long, closely fitting cloak.
• ENGRAPPLE
  To grapple.
• COUNTERMARK
  An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age. (more info) 1. A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark
• THRAPPLE
  Windpipe; throttle.
• INGRAPPLE
  To seize; to clutch; to grapple. Drayton.
• SEA ORANGE
  A large American holothurian having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.