Definition

Noun: 1. A kitchen utensil designed to remove the central, often inedible, part (the core) from fruits, especially apples and pears. It typically consists of a cylindrical cutting tube with a handle.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • Use an apple corer to remove the seeds and tough center quickly.
  • This corer makes preparing pears for poaching much easier.
  • She bought a stainless steel corer for her baking projects.

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used in compound form specifying the fruit, such as "apple corer" or "pineapple corer", though "corer" alone is generally understood to refer to an apple corer.
• In a more general or technical sense, a "corer" can refer to any device that extracts a cylindrical sample from a material (e.g., a soil corer, an ice corer), but this usage is less common in everyday language.

Variants and Related Words

• Core (verb): To remove the core from a fruit.
  • Please core these apples before slicing them.
• Apple corer (noun phrase): The most common specific type of corer.

Synonyms

• Core remover
• Apple corer (specific)

Related Phrases

• To core an apple: The action performed using a corer.
  • The first step in the recipe is to core the apple.

Noun

1. a device for removing the core from apples