What (who) is Apple - definition

apple

FRUIT OF THE APPLE TREE

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1) cooking; eating apples

2) a baked; green; sour apple

3) (misc.) a rotten apple ('an undesirable person')

apple

FRUIT OF THE APPLE TREE

(apples)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

An apple is a round fruit with smooth green, yellow, or red skin and firm white flesh.

I want an apple.

...his ongoing search for the finest varieties of apple.

...a large garden with apple trees in it.

N-VAR

see also Adam's apple
, Big Apple
, crab apple

If you say that someone is the apple of your eye, you mean that they are very important to you and you are extremely fond of them.

Penny's only son was the apple of her eye.

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Apple

FRUIT OF THE APPLE TREE

·vi To grow like an apple; to bear apples.

II. Apple ·noun Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.

III. Apple ·noun Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.

IV. Apple ·noun The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.

V. Apple ·noun Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.