Queening

Queening
Queening Queen"ing, n. [See {Queen apple}.] (Bot.) Any one of several kinds of apples, as {summer queening}, {scarlet queening}, and {early queening}. An apple called the queening was cultivated in England two hundred years ago. [1913 Webster]

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