Definição de 'apple'

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apple

(æpəl )

Formas da palavra: plural apples

1. substantivo variável

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

See the apple of your eye

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apple in British English

(ˈæpəl )

substantivo

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

apple in American English

(ˈæpəl )

substantivo

a round, firm, fleshy, edible fruit with a green, yellow, or red skin and small seeds

any of the trees (genus Malus) of the rose family bearing this fruit, widely distributed in temperate regions

any of various plants bearing applelike fruits, or growths, as the May apple, love apple, etc.

Expressões:

the Apple

Origem da palavra apple

ME appel < OE æppel, fruit, apple (also, eyeball, anything round); akin to OIr aball (Welsh afall), apple tree

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apple in American English

(ˈæpəl)

substantivo

the usually round, red or greenish-yellow, edible fruit of a small tree, Malus sylvestris, of the rose family

the tree, cultivated in most temperate regions

the fruit of any of certain other species of tree of the same genus

any of these trees

any of various other similar fruits, or fruitlike products or plants, as the custard apple, love apple, May apple, or oak apple

anything resembling an apple in size and shape, as a ball, esp. a baseball

7. Tenpin Bowling

an ineffectively bowled ball

8. slang

a red capsule containing a barbiturate, esp. secobarbital

Origem da palavra apple

[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]

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