golding

Meanings

Noun

• A gold coin.
• A kind of apple; a goldling.
• The corn marigold (Glebionis segetum (species)).
• The ladybird (family Coccinellidae).
• A kind of red hop, a sub-variety of the Canterbury hop.

Verb

• Present participle of gold

Related

Similar words

• golding hop, golding vine

Origin

• First attested circa 1580; formed as gold + -ing.
• First attested in 1798; from the surname (Golding) of the man who developed the sub-variety (in 1790).
• gold + -ing