Arkansas Black

noun

food

: a dark red to reddish-purple apple with a crisp, yellow flesh and a mildly sweet flavor

Arkansas Black is a popular heirloom said to have come from a Winesap seedling in the Ozark Mountains around 1870. It's a beautiful apple—rock-hard when first picked—and a good winter keeper.

—Tom Stebbins, Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times Free Press, 8 Mar. 2008

Word History

First Known Use

1884, in the meaning defined above

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