apple.
A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
Meaning & usage
A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus. The fruit of the tree Malus domestica, chiefly with a green, red, or yellow skin, cultivated in temperate climates for cidermaking, cooking, and eating.
A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus. Often with a qualifying word: any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing (such as a cone or gall) produced by a plant, especially if from a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica (noun sense 1.1).
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A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus. Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (noun sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour.
A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus. Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (noun sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour. Ellipsis of Adam's apple (“the lump in the throat, usually more noticeable in men than in women; the laryngeal prominence”).
A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus. Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (noun sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour. Ellipsis of apple-green (“a bright green colour with a light tint of yellow, like that of a Granny Smith apple”).
A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus. Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (noun sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour. Ellipsis of apple of the eye (“the pupil, or pupil and iris, of the eye, originally believed to be spherical; also, the eyeball”).
A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus. Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (noun sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour. The round, fleshy part of a cheek between the eye and the corner of the mouth when a person is smiling.
A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus. Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (noun sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour. The surface of revolution of a circular arc of an angle greater than 180° rotated about the straight line passing through the arc's two endpoints.
A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus. Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (noun sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour. In full apple bowl: a round bowl of a tobacco pipe; also, a tobacco pipe with such a bowl.
A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus. Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (noun sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour. In full old apple: a baseball.
A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus. According to postbiblical Christian tradition, the fruit of the tree of knowledge which was eaten by Adam and Eve despite God commanding them not to do so; the forbidden fruit.
A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus. Synonym of pome (“a type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels”).
A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus. An imaginary diminutive unit of height.
He's only three apples tall
A tree of the genus Malus; especially Malus domestica which is cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
Synonym of applewood (“the wood of the apple tree”).
A fruit of any kind.
A person.
Synonym of CBer (“a CB radio enthusiast”).
An assist.
A Native American or redskinned person who acts or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl Proto-Germanic *aplaz Proto-West Germanic *applu Old English æppel Middle English appel English apple The noun is derived from Middle English appel (“Malus domestica fruit or tree, apple; any type of fruit, nut, or tuber; tree bearing fruit; (figurative) ball, sphere; (Christianity) forbidden fruit in Eden”), from Old English æppel (“apple; any type of fruit; (figurative) ball, sphere; eyeball”), from Proto-West Germanic *applu (“apple; any type of fruit”), from Proto-Germanic *aplaz (“apple; any type of fruit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl, *h₂ébl̥ (“apple”). As regards noun sense 1.4 (“forbidden fruit”), the type of fruit eaten by Adam and Eve is not identified in the Book of Genesis in the Bible. It may have come to be identified with the apple because of the similarity between Latin mālum (“apple”) and malum (“evil; misery, torment; wrongdoing”). The inheritance from Germanic is clear, but the etymology of the word beyond that point is uncertain and disputed. The word may show a borrowing from a non-Indo-European language, or the forms in Germanic, Celtic, Baltic, and Slavonic may all be developed from a common Indo-European base—although none of the attempts to identify cognates in other branches of Indo-European have yet met with general acceptance. In Old English, the word originally followed the strong masculine u-stem declension, but even in early texts it shows a shift toward the more common a-stem declension (compare the nominative plural æppla beside the rare æpplas; see further A. Campbell Old Eng. Gram. (1959) §613). A possible weak by-form is also suggested by the genitive plural æpplena (instead of the expected æppla) in an isolated attestation from the first half of the 11th century. Among the variant forms, the β forms show metanalysis (see Metanalysis). The verb is derived from the noun. cognates Cognate with: * Old Frisian appel, Middle Dutch appel (Dutch appel), Old Saxon appul (Middle Low German appel), Old High German apful, aphul, aphel, apfel (Middle High German apfel, German Apfel), * Old Norse epli (Icelandic epli, Faroese epli, Norwegian Bokmål eple, Norwegian Nynorsk eple, Swedish äpple, Danish æble), * Elfdalian epple, Jamtish eppel, Scanian æple, * Crimean Gothic apel, * Gaulish avallo, aballo- (perhaps > Latin acerabulus), * Old Irish abal, ubal, ubul (Irish úll), * Old Welsh afall, afal (Welsh afal, afall), * Old Prussian woble, wobalne, * Lithuanian obelis, obuolys, * Latvian ābele, ābols, ābolis, * Old Church Slavonic jablanĭ, * Old East Slavic jabolon′, jablŭko (Russian яблоня (jablonja), яблоко (jabloko)), * Old Polish jabłoń, jabłko (Polish jabłoń, jabłko). Possibly also Latin Abella (town in Campania; compare Virgil Aeneid 7.740 maliferae ... moenia Abellae 'the walls of apple-bearing Abella').
To make (something) appear like an apple (noun sense 1.1).
To become like an apple.
To collect fir-cones.
Of a flower bud or vegetable (especially a root vegetable): to grow into the shape of an apple.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl Proto-Germanic *aplaz Proto-West Germanic *applu Old English æppel Middle English appel English apple The noun is derived from Middle English appel (“Malus domestica fruit or tree, apple; any type of fruit, nut, or tuber; tree bearing fruit; (figurative) ball, sphere; (Christianity) forbidden fruit in Eden”), from Old English æppel (“apple; any type of fruit; (figurative) ball, sphere; eyeball”), from Proto-West Germanic *applu (“apple; any type of fruit”), from Proto-Germanic *aplaz (“apple; any type of fruit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl, *h₂ébl̥ (“apple”). As regards noun sense 1.4 (“forbidden fruit”), the type of fruit eaten by Adam and Eve is not identified in the Book of Genesis in the Bible. It may have come to be identified with the apple because of the similarity between Latin mālum (“apple”) and malum (“evil; misery, torment; wrongdoing”). The inheritance from Germanic is clear, but the etymology of the word beyond that point is uncertain and disputed. The word may show a borrowing from a non-Indo-European language, or the forms in Germanic, Celtic, Baltic, and Slavonic may all be developed from a common Indo-European base—although none of the attempts to identify cognates in other branches of Indo-European have yet met with general acceptance. In Old English, the word originally followed the strong masculine u-stem declension, but even in early texts it shows a shift toward the more common a-stem declension (compare the nominative plural æppla beside the rare æpplas; see further A. Campbell Old Eng. Gram. (1959) §613). A possible weak by-form is also suggested by the genitive plural æpplena (instead of the expected æppla) in an isolated attestation from the first half of the 11th century. Among the variant forms, the β forms show metanalysis (see Metanalysis). The verb is derived from the noun. cognates Cognate with: * Old Frisian appel, Middle Dutch appel (Dutch appel), Old Saxon appul (Middle Low German appel), Old High German apful, aphul, aphel, apfel (Middle High German apfel, German Apfel), * Old Norse epli (Icelandic epli, Faroese epli, Norwegian Bokmål eple, Norwegian Nynorsk eple, Swedish äpple, Danish æble), * Elfdalian epple, Jamtish eppel, Scanian æple, * Crimean Gothic apel, * Gaulish avallo, aballo- (perhaps > Latin acerabulus), * Old Irish abal, ubal, ubul (Irish úll), * Old Welsh afall, afal (Welsh afal, afall), * Old Prussian woble, wobalne, * Lithuanian obelis, obuolys, * Latvian ābele, ābols, ābolis, * Old Church Slavonic jablanĭ, * Old East Slavic jabolon′, jablŭko (Russian яблоня (jablonja), яблоко (jabloko)), * Old Polish jabłoń, jabłko (Polish jabłoń, jabłko). Possibly also Latin Abella (town in Campania; compare Virgil Aeneid 7.740 maliferae ... moenia Abellae 'the walls of apple-bearing Abella').
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