apple

Forms

1.A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
- Yes, fair Eve, just as Adam ate the apple, so beware!
- A peasant blouse that showed the tops of those lovely little apples.
- Hey Dad! What do you say we toss the old apple around, huh? Sound like fun?
2.A fruit of any kind.
- I have an orange and an apple.
- I don't eat the core of an apple.
- My lunch was an apple and pears and pomegranate.
3.A tree of the genus Malus; especially Malus domestica which is cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
- Some fruit trees, like plums, do well in damp soil conditions. Other fruit trees, like apples, need well-drained soil.
- Used to be apple orchards, used to be the river and irrigation ditches that watered the apples, used to be mining towns.
- This allows a weak plant to benefit from the strong roots of another, or a vigorous tree (such as an apple) to be kept small by growing on 'dwarfing rootstock'.
4.Synonym of applewood (“the wood of the apple tree”).
- I have an orange and an apple.
- I don't eat the core of an apple.
- My lunch was an apple and pears and pomegranate.

1.To make (something) appear like an apple (noun sense 1.1).
- A large smile appled his full cheeks as the four sprytes eagerly served themselves from the seeds and thinly sliced fruits.
2.To become like an apple.
- She smiled, and her cheeks appled up and her teeth were big and flat and her mouth was wide and spacious like an open invitation.
- He glanced at me, his cheeks appled in the impish grin I was learning to recognise as the clever under-side of his broad and gentle smile.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl

Proto-Germanic *aplaz

Proto-West Germanic *applu

Old English æppel

Middle English appel

English apple