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.
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 apple5. See apple of one's eye
6. See bad apple
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Word origin
Old English æppel; related to Old Saxon appel, Old Norse apall, Old High German apfulapple in American English
noun
2.
any of the trees (genus Malus) of the rose family bearing this fruit, widely distributed in temperate regions
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Word origin
ME appel < OE æppel, fruit, apple (also, eyeball, anything round); akin to OIr aball (Welsh afall), apple tree
apple in American English
(ˈæpəl)
noun
1.
the usually round, red or greenish-yellow, edible fruit of a small tree, Malus sylvestris, of the rose family
2.
the tree, cultivated in most temperate regions
4.
any of these trees
5.
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[bef. 900; ME appel, OE æppel; c. OFris, D appel, OS apl, appul, OHG apful (G Apfel), Crimean Goth apel ‹ Gmc *aplu (akin to ON epli ‹ *apljan); OIr ubull (neut.), Welsh afal, Breton aval ‹ pre-Celtic *ǫblu; Lith óbuolas, -ỹs, Latvian âbuol(i)s (with reshaped suffix), OPruss woble, perh. Thracian (din)upla, (sin)upyla wild pumpkin, OCS (j)ablŭko (repr. *ablŭ-ko, neut.) ‹ Balto-Slavic *āblu-. Cf. avalon]Examples of 'apple' in a sentence
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a cedar, Cedrus libani, of SW Asia with level spreading branches and fragrant wood
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a small widely cultivated Asian rosaceous tree, Cydonia oblonga, with pinkish-white flowers and edible pear-shaped fruits
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any deciduous or evergreen tree or shrub of the fagaceous genus Quercus, having acorns as fruits and lobed leaves
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a small tree, Erythrina verspertilio, of tropical and subtropical Australia with red flowers and leaves shaped like the wings of a bat
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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 /ˈæpəl/
- 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: ผลแอปเปิ้ล
- Turkish: elma
- Ukrainian: яблуко
- Vietnamese: quả táo
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