Jonathan freckle

noun

: a nonparasitic storage disease of apples that produces small circular skin-deep discolorations

Word History

Etymology

from Jonathan, a variety of apple to which the disease is especially destructive, after Jonathan Hasbrouck †1846 American jurist

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