Blenheimn.
/ˈblɛnɪm/ a. A breed of spaniel.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > spaniel > land or water > varieties of
springer1749
King Charles1780
English springer1808
Marlborough dog1822
cocker spaniel1829
Marlborough1831
Blenheim1839
Norfolk spaniel1845
King Charles1848
Sussex spaniel1856
field spaniel1859
clumber1865
Norfolk1867
Japanese spaniel1880
Welsh springer1903
Tibetan spaniel1905
Brittany spaniel1936
Brittany1945
1839 C. Sinclair Holiday House xv. 332 She..had taken into the berth beside her a little Blenheim spaniel.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 54/1 A good fancy breed of ‘King Charleses’, or ‘Blenheims’.
a1855 C. Brontë Professor (1857) I. xiv. 238 To lead in a ribbon her Blenheim spaniel or Italian greyhound.
1957 Encycl. Brit. VII. 497 b/2 English Toy Spaniel... There are several varieties of this breed, including the Prince Charles,..Ruby and Blenheim, the main variations being in colour.
b. Blenheim Orange n. (also Blenheim Pippin) a golden-coloured apple; also elliptical.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > apple > [noun] > eating-apple > types of
costardc1390
bitter-sweet1393
Queening?1435
richardine?1435
blaundrellc1440
pear apple1440
tuberc1440
quarrendenc1450
birtle1483
deusan1570
apple-john1572
Richard1572
lording1573
greening1577
queen apple1579
peeler1580
darling1584
doucin1584
golding1589
puffin1589
lady's longing1591
bitter-sweeting1597
pearmain1597
paradise apple1598
garden globe1600
gastlet1600
leather-coat1600
maligar1600
pome-paradise1601
French pippin1629
gillyflower1629
king apple1635
lady apple1651
golden pippin1654
goldling1655
puff1655
cardinal1658
green fillet1662
chestnut1664
cinnamon apple1664
fenouil1664
go-no-further1664
Westbury apple1664
seek-no-farther1670
nonsuch1676
calville1691
passe-pomme1691
fennel apple1699
queen1699
genet1706
fig-apple1707
oaken pin1707
nonpareil1726
costing1731
monstrous reinette1731
Newtown pippin1760
Ribston1782
Rhode Island greening1795
oslin1801
fall pippin1803
monstrous pippin1817
Newtown Spitzenburg1817
Gravenstein1821
Red Astrachan1822
Tolman sweet1822
grange apple1823
orange pippin1823
Baldwin1826
Sturmer Pippin1831
Newtowner1846
Northern Spy1847
Blenheim Orange1860
Cox1860
McIntosh Red1876
Worcester1877
raspberry apple1894
delicious1898
Laxton's Superb1920
Macoun1924
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > apple > eating-apple > types of
costardc1390
bitter-sweet1393
pippin?1435
pomewater?1435
Queening?1435
richardine?1435
blaundrellc1440
pear apple1440
tuberc1440
quarrendenc1450
birtle1483
sweeting1530
pomeroyal1534
renneta1568
deusan1570
apple-john1572
Richard1572
lording1573
russeting1573
greening1577
queen apple1579
peeler1580
reinette1582
darling1584
doucin1584
golding1589
puffin1589
lady's longing1591
bitter-sweeting1597
pearmain1597
paradise apple1598
garden globe1600
gastlet1600
leather-coat1600
maligar1600
pomeroy1600
short-start1600
jenneting1601
pome-paradise1601
russet coat1602
John apple1604
honey apple1611
honeymeal1611
musk apple1611
short-shank1611
spice apple1611
French pippin1629
king apple1635
lady apple1651
golden pippin1654
goldling1655
puff1655
cardinal1658
renneting1658
green fillet1662
chestnut1664
cinnamon apple1664
fenouil1664
go-no-further1664
reinetting1664
Westbury apple1664
seek-no-farther1670
nonsuch1676
white-wining1676
russet1686
calville1691
fennel apple1699
queen1699
genet1706
fig-apple1707
oaken pin1707
musk1708
nonpareil1726
costing1731
monstrous reinette1731
Newtown pippin1760
Ribston1782
Rhode Island greening1795
oslin1801
wine apple1802
fall pippin1803
monstrous pippin1817
Newtown Spitzenburg1817
Gravenstein1821
Red Astrachan1822
Tolman sweet1822
grange apple1823
orange pippin1823
Baldwin1826
wine-sap1826
Jonathan1831
Sturmer Pippin1831
rusty-coat1843
Newtowner1846
Northern Spy1847
Cornish gilliflowerc1850
Blenheim Orange1860
Cox1860
nutmeg pippin1860
McIntosh Red1876
Worcester1877
raspberry apple1894
delicious1898
Laxton's Superb1920
Melba apple1928
Melba1933
Mutsu1951
Newtown1953
discovery1964
1860 R. Hogg Fruit Man. 2 Blenheim Orange, K. D. (Woodstock Pippin, Northwick Pippin).
1877 E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 34 Dessert Apples... Blenheim Pippin.
1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 173 In the fork of a great apple tree—a Blenheim orange—the missel-thrush has built her nest.
1882 Garden 13 May 321/1 The Blenheim Orange is not a good bearer when young.
1925 E. Blunden Eng. Poems 17 And the sweet smell of Blenheims lapped in straw.
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