Codlin; Codling

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. An apple fit to stew or coddle.

2. An immature apple. A codling when 't is almost an apple. Shak. Codling moth (Zoöl.), a small moth (Carpocapsa Pomonella), which in the larval state (known as the apple worm) lives in apples, often doing great damage to the crop.