Definition of 'apple'
Word forms: plural apples
1. variable noun
An apple is a round fruit with
smooth green, yellow, or red skin and firm white flesh.
I want an apple.
...2kg cooking apples.
...his ongoing search for the finest varieties of apple.
...a large garden with apple trees in it.
2. See also
Adam's apple,
Big Apple,
crab apple
3.
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apple in British English
noun
1.
a
rosaceous tree,
Malus sieversii,
native to Central
Asia but widely
cultivated in
temperate
regions in many
varieties, having
pink or
white
fragrant flowers and
firm
rounded
edible
fruits
See also
crab apple3.
the
wood of this tree
4.
any of several
unrelated trees that have fruits
similar to the apple, such as the
custard apple,
sugar apple, and
May apple
See also
love apple,
oak apple,
thorn apple6.
bad apple
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Word origin
Old English æppel; related to Old Saxon appel, Old Norse apall, Old High German apfulWord Frequency
apple in American English
noun
2.
any of the trees (genus Malus) of the
rose family
bearing this fruit, widely
distributed in temperate regions
Idioms:
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Word origin
ME appel < OE æppel, fruit, apple (also, eyeball, anything round); akin to OIr aball (Welsh afall), apple tree
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Which tree am I?
any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex, such as the Eurasian I. aquifolium, having bright red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges
Which tree am I?
any of various trees of the rosaceous genus Sorbus, such as S aucuparia (European mountain ash or rowan), having clusters of small white flowers and bright red berries
Which tree am I?
any tree of the genus Casuarina, of Australia and the East Indies, having jointed leafless branchlets: family Casuarinaceae
Which tree am I?
any tree of the Australian proteaceous genus Macadamia, esp M. ternifolia, having clusters of small white flowers and edible nutlike seeds
Which tree am I?
an Australian eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus diversifolia
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apple
British English: apple
/ˈæpl/ NOUN
An apple is a round fruit with a smooth skin and firm white flesh.
I want an apple.
- American English: apple
- Arabic: تَفَّاحَة
- Brazilian Portuguese: maçã
- Chinese: 苹果
- Croatian: jabuka
- Czech: jablko
- Danish: æble
- Dutch: appel vrucht
- European Spanish: manzana
- Finnish: omena
- French: pomme
- German: Apfel
- Greek: μήλο
- Italian: mela
- Japanese: リンゴ
- Korean: 사과
- Norwegian: eple
- Polish: jabłko
- European Portuguese: maçã
- Romanian: măr
- Russian: яблоко
- Latin American Spanish: manzana fruta
- Swedish: äpple
- Thai: แอปเปิ้ล
- Turkish: elma
- Ukrainian: яблуко
- Vietnamese: quả táo
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