apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæp.l̩/
ipa: /ˈapəl/
ipa: [ɛːpɐl]
ipa: /ˈapɪl/
ipa: /ˈɑpɪl/
ipa: [-ɘl ~ -ɘɭ]
Forms: form: apples
Etymology: 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 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 verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots aipple (“apple”), North Frisian aapel, Oapel, ååpel (“apple”), Saterland Frisian Apel, Appel (“apple”), West Frisian apel, appel (“apple”), Alemannic German effél, epfel, epfil, öpfil (“apple”), Bavarian eipfele, epfl, Åpfe (“apple”), Cimbrian oupfal, öpfel, öpfl (“apple”), Dutch appel (“apple”), German Apfel (“apple”), German Low German Appel (“apple”), Limburgish Ape̩l, appel (“apple”), Luxembourgish Apel (“apple”), Mòcheno epfl (“apple”), Vilamovian epuł (“apple”), Yiddish עפּל (epl, “apple”), Danish æble (“apple”), Faroese epl, epli (“apple; potato”), Icelandic epli (“apple”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk eple (“apple”), Swedish äpple (“apple”), Crimean Gothic apel (“apple”), Irish úll (“apple”), Lithuanian óbuolỹs (“apple”), Russian я́блоко (jábloko, “apple”), Welsh afal (“apple”), possibly Ancient Greek ἄμπελος (ámpelos, “vine”).
Senses: examples: text: All apples eaten ſoone after yͭ they be gathered, are cold, hard to digeſt, and do make ill and corrupted bloud, but being wel kept vntill yͤ next winter, or the year folowing, eatẽ [eaten] after meales, they are right holeſome, & doe confyrme the ſtomacke, & make good digeſtion, ſpecially if they be roſted or baked, […]
ref: 153[9], Thomas Elyot, “Of Apples”, in The Castel of Helth […], London: […] Thomæ Bertheleti […], →OCLC, book II, folio 21, recto:
text: [T]hey [i.e., writers] aſſigne and lay to India, the countrey of the Aſpagores, ſo plentifull in vines, laurels, and box, and generally of all ſorts of apple trees and other fruitfull trees that grovv vvithin Greece.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book VI.] The Arij, and Other Nations Depending unto Them.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 128:
text: VVhat of my droſs thou findeſt there, be bold / To throvv avvay, but yet preserve the Gold. / VVhat if my Gold be vvrapped up in Ore? / None throvvs avvay the Apple for the Core.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 233:
text: Instead of the assembly of honourable merchants, substantial tradesmen, and knowing masters of ships; the mumpers, the halt, the blind, and the lame; your venders of trash, apples, plums; your ragamuffins, rakeshames, and wenches; have justled the greater number of the former out of that place.
ref: 1712 October 25 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “TUESDAY, October 14, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 509; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 501:
text: I have so often heard Mr. Woodhouse recommend a baked apple. I believe it is the only way that Mr. Woodhouse thinks the fruit thoroughly wholesome. We have apple dumplings, however, very often. Patty makes an excellent apple-dumpling.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, pages 184–185:
text: This red seems to me the perfect premonition of summer—like the red on the outside of apple blossom—and later, the red of the apple. It is the premonition in redness of summer and of autumn.
ref: a. 1931 (date written), D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “[Nature and Poetical Pieces.] Flowery Tuscany.”, in Edward D[avid] McDonald, editor, Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence, London: William Heinemann, published 1936, →OCLC, section III, page 52:
text: Close by and under cover, I watched the juicing process. Apples were washed, then tipped, stalks and all, into the crusher and reduced to pulp.
ref: 2013 October 28, John Vallins, “Apples of Concord”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2023:
hypernyms: fruit
hand fruit
pome
glosses: 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.
examples: text: custard apple    rose apple    thorn apple
text: The apples wherewith the Indian Canibales inueneme theyr arrowes, growe on certeyne trees couered with many braunches and leaues beinge very greene and growyng thicke. They are laden with abundaunce of theſe euyll frutes, […]
ref: 1555, Gonzalus Ferdinandus Ouiedus [i.e., Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés], “[The Historie of the Weste Indies]. Of Venemous Apples wherwith They Poyson Theyr Arrowes.”, in Peter Martyr of Angleria [i.e., Peter Martyr d’Anghiera], translated by Rycharde Eden [i.e., Richard Eden], The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, […], London: […] [Rycharde Jug for] Guilhelmi Powell, →OCLC, decade, folio 198, verso:
text: This apple is called in high Dutch, Zyꝛbel [Zyrbel]: in low Dutch, Pijn appel: in Engliſh, Pine apple, Clogge, and Cone. […] The vvhole Cone or apple being boiled vvith freſh Horehound, ſaith Galen, and aftervvards boyled againe vvith a little hony till the decoction be come to the thicknes of hony, maketh an excellent medicine for the clenſing of the cheſt and lungs.
ref: 1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of the Pine Tree”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book III, page 1174:
text: As touching Arabia, vvhich lyeth neere and bordereth upon theſe Iſlands, the ſpices and odoriferous fruits that be therein, are to be treated of vvith diſtinction: for their merchandiſe doth conſiſt of roots, braunches, barke, juice or liquor, gums and roſins, vvood, tvvigs, flovvers, leaves, and apple.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XI.] The Trees of the Iland Tyles within the Persian Sea. Moreover, of Those Trees that Beare Woll or Cotton..”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 364:
text: The fruite or Apples of Palme-trees (eſpecially ſuch as grovv in ſalt grounds neare the Sea ſides, as in Cyrene of Affrica, and Indea, and not in Egypt, Cyprus, Syria, Helvetia, and Aſsiria do fatten and feed Hogges.
ref: 1607, Conradus Gesnerus [i.e., Conrad Gessner]; Edward Topsell, chapter IX, in The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes. […], London: […] William Iaggard, →OCLC, page 666:
text: In Perſia there grovvs a deadly tree, vvhoſe apples are poiſon, and preſent death: therefore there it is uſed for a puniſhment: but being brought over to the Kings into Egypt, they become vvholeſome apples to eat, and loſe their harmfulneſſe, as Columella vvrites.
ref: 1658, John Baptista Porta [i.e., Giambattista della Porta], “That the Countries and Places where Simples Grow, are Chiefly to be Considered”, in [anonymous], transl., Natural Magick […] Wherein are Set Forth All the Riches and Delights of the Natural Sciences, London: […] John Wright, […], published 1669, →OCLC, 1st book (Wherein are Searched Out the Causes of Things which Produce Wonderful Effects), page 21:
text: [T]he fly injects her juices into the oak leaf to raiſe an apple for hatching her young and therein ſupplies us vvith ink for our correſpondence and improvement.
ref: 1768, Edward Search [pseudonym; Abraham Tucker], “External Nature”, in The Light of Nature Pursued, volume II, part I (Theology), London: […] T. Jones, […]; and sold by T[homas] Payne, […], →OCLC, paragraph 13, page 302:
text: [I]t [Otaheite] is remarkable for producing great quantities of that delicious fruit we called apples, which are found in none of the others, except Eimeo.
ref: 1784, James Cook, chapter IX, in A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. […], volume II, London: […] W[illiam] and A. Strahan; for G[eorge] Nicol, […]; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, book III (Transactions at Otaheite, and the Society Islands; and Prosecution of the Voyage to the Coast of North America), page 174:
text: Hippomane mancinella. (Manchineel-tree.) Dr. Peysonnel relates that a soldier, who was a slave with the Turks, eat some of the apples of this tree, and was soon seized with a swelling and pain of the abdomen.
ref: 1825, Theodric Romeyn Beck, William Dunlop, Elements of Medical Jurisprudence. […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Anderson, […], →OCLC, page 565:
text: The cross-bill will have seeds from the apple, or cone of the fir—the green-finch, seeds from the uplands, or door of barn, or rickyard.
ref: 1829, [John Leonard Knapp], The Journal of a Naturalist, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 250–251:
text: One kind of apple or gall, inhabited only by one grub, is hard and woody on the outside, resembling a little wooden ball, of a yellowish color, but internally it is of a soft, spongy texture.
ref: 1833, Charles Williams, “The Aged Tree”, in The Vegetable World, London: Frederick Westley and A[braham] H[opkins] Davis, […], →OCLC, page 192:
text: The "apple" or gall usually forms a somewhat kidney-shaped excrescence, attached by a small base on the concave side, and varying in size from a half an inch to an inch and a half in length.
ref: 1889, B. D. Halstead, “Report of the Section of Vegetable Pathology [9.—Apple Rusts.]”, in Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture. 1888, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 376:
hypernyms: fruit
hand fruit
pome
glosses: 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 (sense 1.1).
examples: text: [H]old a round ball or hollovv apple of glaſſe full of vvater againſt the Sunne, it vvill be ſo hot, that it is ready to burne any cloth that it toucheth.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXXVI.] The First Invention of Glasse, and the Manner of Making It. Of a Kind of Glasse, Called Obsidianum. Also of Sundrie Kinds of Glasse, and Those of Manie Formes..”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 598:
text: [S]hrugging up her Shoulders, to ſhevv the tempting Apples of her vvhite Breaſts, ſhe ſuddainly lets them ſink again, to hide them, bluſhing, as if this had been done by chance, […]
ref: 1705, J. S., “The Ways and Artifices of a Town-jilt, &c.”, in City and Country Recreation: Or, Wit and Merriment Rightly Calculated, for the Pleasure and Advantage of Either Sex. […], London: […] W. O. for P. Parker, […], →OCLC, 2nd part, page 104:
text: [T]he ſaid elector of Saxony ſhall have on his right the count-palatine of the Rhine, vvho ſhall carry the globe or imperial apple; and, on his left, the marquis of Brandenburg carrying the ſcepter.
ref: 1761, “Of the Order of the Procession of the Electoral Princes, and of Those who are to Carry the Honorary Ensigns”, in The Modern Part of an Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time. […], volume XXX, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson, […], →OCLC, page 508:
text: The arms of Upland were a golden apple, or globe, surrounded with a belt, in allusion to the monarchy.
ref: 1807, Sharon Turner, “The Political State of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, in the Eighth Century”, in The History of the Anglo-Saxons. […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, […], →OCLC, book III, footnote 20, page 200, column 2:
text: Andy picked up his two grenades and followed the line into the pits. The apples felt strangely heavy in his hands, and when he looked at them one was as ugly and lethal-looking as the other.
ref: 1956, Marion Hargrove, The Girl He Left Behind: Or, All Quiet in the Third Platoon, New York, N.Y.: Viking Books, →OCLC, page 129:
text: A peasant blouse that showed the tops of those lovely little apples.
ref: 1975, C[harles] W[illiam] Smith, chapter IX, in Country Music, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 256:
text: Contrary to Henricus Martellus [Germanus], [Martin] Behaim included the tropics [on his globe]. […] Evidently, there was no space for a Fourth Continent on Behaim's apple, although some recollection of the Catalan map seems to lie behind the shape of southern Africa.
ref: 2008, Harald Kleinschmidt, Ruling the Waves: Emperor Maximilian I, the Search for Islands and the Transformation of the European World Picture c. 1500 (Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica; 63), ’t Goy, Houten, Utrecht: Hes & de Graaf Publishers, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 79:
hypernyms: fruit
hand fruit
pome
glosses: A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour.
examples: text: The sweat of fear and exertion was streaming down his face and chest, and his breath came in short, tearing, hard-drawn gasps and gulps, while the apple in his throat leaped up and down ceaselessly like a ball balanced on a dancing jet of water.
ref: 1898, Hugh [Charles] Clifford, “In Arcadia”, in Studies in Brown Humanity: Being Scrawls and Smudges in Sepia, White, and Yellow, London: Grant Richards […], →OCLC, page 99:
text: Elsie went away with her parents to Belgium and the convent-school on the twelfth, and as they left The Firs in the battered station cab surrounded by boxes and trunks, Willie could not speak. The apple in his throat rose and remained there.
ref: 1920 December – 1921 September (date written), Henry Williamson, “Formation of the Owl Club”, in Dandelion Days, London; Glasgow: W[illiam] Collins Sons & Co., published 1922, →OCLC, pages 113–114:
text: He looked with vague hope up and down the quay, a big apple bulging in his neck.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 10: Wandering Rocks]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 234:
text: The apple in his neck was hitting against his collar every time he drew breath and he tore at his collar nervously.
ref: a. 1985 (date written), Liam O’Flaherty, “Josephine”, in A[ngeline] A. Kelly, editor, The Collected Stories, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, published 1999, →ISBN, page 131:
text: If the Hound had not been moving, the knife might have cored the apple of his throat; instead it only grazed his ribs, and wound up quivering in the wall near the door. He laughed then, a laugh as cold and hollow as if it had come from the bottom of a deep well.
ref: 2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 846:
text: The apple in his neck bobbles as he gulps. “You've got to be kidding.” / “No, I'm not. Your inheritance amounts to maybe three hundred thousand dollars."
ref: 2003, Sandra Benítez, Night of the Radishes, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 223:
hypernyms: fruit
hand fruit
pome
glosses: A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (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”).
hypernyms: fruit
hand fruit
pome
glosses: A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (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”).
examples: text: None have their eies all of one colour: for the ball or apple in the middeſt is ordinarily of another colour than the vvhite about it.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XI.] A Discourse Anatomicall, of the Nature of Living Creatures, Part by Part, according to Their Particular Members.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 334:
text: The dart did vndergore / His eye-lid, by his eyes deare rootes; and out the apple fell, / The eye pierc'd through: […]
ref: [1611?], Homer, “The XIV. Booke of Homers Iliads”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, pages 197–198:
hypernyms: fruit
hand fruit
pome
glosses: A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (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”).
hypernyms: fruit
hand fruit
pome
glosses: A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (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.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
hypernyms: fruit
hand fruit
pome
glosses: A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (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.
coordinate_terms: lemon
topics: lifestyle
smoking
hypernyms: fruit
hand fruit
pome
glosses: A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (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.
examples: text: Hey Dad! What do you say we toss the old apple around, huh? Sound like fun?
ref: 1990 February 25, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Sam Simon, “The Telltale Head”, in The Simpsons, season 1, episode 8:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hypernyms: fruit
hand fruit
pome
glosses: A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour.
In full old apple: a baseball.
examples: text: Him [man] by fraud I [Satan] have ſeduc'd / From his Creator, and the more to increaſe / Your vvonder, vvith an Apple; […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, signature [Ll4], recto, lines 485–487:
text: I read and re-read her letter, and some softened feelings stole into my heart, and dared to whisper paradisiacal dreams of love and joy; but the apple was already eaten, and the angel's arm bared to drive me from all hope.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter V, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 102:
text: Yes, of all human follies, love, / Methinks, hath served me best. / The Apple had done but little for me / If Eve had not done the rest.
ref: 1829, Robert Southey, “All for Love, or A Sinner Well Saved. Canto II.”, in All for Love; and The Pilgrim to Compostela, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 20:
text: Yes, fair Eve, just as Adam ate the apple, so beware!
ref: 1871, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Congratulations, etc.”, in My Wife and I: Or, Harry Henderson’s History, New York, N.Y.: J. B. Ford and Company, →OCLC, page 399:
text: Yes mam. Woman ate the apple, and discovered sex, and lost all shame, and lift^([sic]) up her fig-leaf, and she must suffer the pains of hell. Monthly.
ref: 1975 (date written), Barry Reckord, “White Witch”, in For the Reckord: A Collection of Three Plays, London: Oberon Books, published 2010, →ISBN:
text: Sharon you've got a husband / And a family and a farm / I've got the apple of temptation / And a diamond snake around my arm
ref: 1976, Joni Mitchell, “Song for Sharon”, in Hejira, Los Angeles, Calif.: Asylum Records, →OCLC:
topics: Christianity
hypernyms: fruit
hand fruit
pome
glosses: 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.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
hypernyms: fruit
hand fruit
pome
glosses: 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”).
synonyms: word: pome
extra: a type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels
examples: text: Trees that beare Maſt, and Nuts, are commonly more laſting, than thoſe that beare Fruits; Eſpecially the Moiſter Fruits: As Oakes, Beeches, Cheſ-nuts, VVall-nuts, Almonds, Pine-Trees, &c. laſt longer than Apples, Peares, Plums, &c.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VI. Century. [Experiments in Consort, Touching the Lasting of Herbs and Trees.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 584, page 146:
text: If the grafted portion of an Apple or other tree were examined after one hundred years, the old cut surfaces would still be present, for mature or ripened wood, being dead, never unites.
ref: 1913, “The Science of Plant Growing”, in John Weathers, editor, Commercial Gardening […], volume I, London: The Gresham Publishing Company […], →OCLC, §4 (The Root and Its Work), page 38:
text: This allows a weak plant to benefit from the strong roots of another, or a vigorous tree (such as an apple) to be kept small by growing on 'dwarfing rootstock'.
ref: 2000, Peter Thomas, “The Next Generation: New Trees from Old”, in Trees: Their Natural History, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 227:
text: Used to be apple orchards, used to be the river and irrigation ditches that watered the apples, used to be mining towns.
ref: 2009, Sid Gardner, The Faults of the Owens Valley, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 34:
text: Some fruit trees, like plums, do well in damp soil conditions. Other fruit trees, like apples, need well-drained soil.
ref: 2012, Terri Reid, “Starting an Orchard”, in The Everything Guide to Living Off the Grid: A Back-to-basics Manual for Independent Living (Everything Series), Avon, Mass.: Adams Media, F+W Media, →ISBN, page 77:
synonyms: malus
glosses: A tree of the genus Malus; especially Malus domestica which is cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
glosses: Synonym of applewood (“the wood of the apple tree”).
synonyms: word: applewood
extra: the wood of the apple tree
examples: text: “I saw a little guy with a can opener fooling around that gum machine,” was the reply.
“And then?” asked McGonigle.
“I can’t say,” replied the poor apple.
ref: 1928, S.J. Perelman, “Phantoms of the Dawn”, in That Old gang o' Mine: The Early and Essential S.J. Perelman, published 1984, page 43:
text: “Take it easy with Thompson, Eddie,” he said lazily. “He’s a good apple but he’s mighty tough to go pushing around. He’s had a lot of bad luck lately.”
ref: 1948 April, John C. Ropke, “You Can’t Stay On Top”, in Masked Rider Western, page 64:
text: Pop delighted in calling his grandson Blenheim; it was such a nice round apple of a name.
‘Well, how’s Charley boy? And how’s my little apple?’
ref: 1963, H.E. Bates, Oh! To Be in England, page 20:
glosses: A person.
raw_tags: with qualifying word
examples: text: Because of overcrowding, many a CB enthusiast (called an "apple") is strapping an illegal linear amplifier ("boots") on to his transceiver ("ears") which is limited by the Federal Communications Commission ("Big Daddy" in the US) to an output power of no more than five watts.
ref: 1977, Bernard Dixon, editor, New Scientist, volume 74, London: IPC Magazines, page 764, column 1:
qualifier: amateur radio
glosses: Synonym of CBer (“a CB radio enthusiast”).
synonyms: word: CBer
extra: a CB radio enthusiast
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: An assist.
examples: text: My ancestors five generations removed were "apples" who were "White" on the inside and "Red" on the outside. […] We need a new breed of "apples."
ref: 1996, Joel Spring, “From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Ford: The End of the Choctaw Republic”, in The Cultural Transformation of A Native American Family and Its Tribe 1763–1995: A Basket of Apples, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2011, →DOI, →ISBN, part II (The Choctaw Republic and Its People):
text: The presenter, close to tears, told the audience that she's really an apple—white on the inside and red on the outside—Native American.
ref: 1998, Opal J. Moore, “‘From the Back of the Bus to the Back of the National Priority List’: The Civil Rights Movement, Integration, and beyond [Git that Gal a Red Dress: A Conversation Between Female Faculty at a State School in Virginia]”, in Daryl Cumber Dance, editor, Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African American Women’s Humor, New York, N.Y.: W[illiam] W[arder] Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 537:
coordinate_terms: banana
coconut
Oreo
Twinkie
glosses: A Native American or redskinned person who acts or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.
Hyponyms: sense: fruit of the genus Malus
taxonomic: Malus baccata
word: cherry apple
sense: fruit of the genus Malus
taxonomic: Malus baccata
word: Chinese crab apple
sense: fruit of the genus Malus
word: cooking apple
sense: fruit of the genus Malus
english: crabapple
translation: crabapple
taxonomic: Malus spp.
word: crab apple
sense: fruit of the genus Malus
word: dessert apple
sense: fruit of the genus Malus
word: eating apple
sense: fruit of the genus Malus
taxonomic: Malus baccata
word: Manchurian crab apple
sense: fruit of the genus Malus
word: mangrove apple
sense: fruit of the genus Malus
taxonomic: Malus ioensis
word: prairie crab apple
sense: fruit of the genus Malus
taxonomic: Malus baccata
word: Siberian crab apple
sense: fruit of the genus Malus
taxonomic: Malus angustifolia
word: southern crab apple
sense: fruit of the genus Malus
taxonomic: Malus spp.
word: wild apple
sense: fruit of the genus Malus
word: wine apple
Derived terms: word: a bad tree does not yield good apples
word: acid of apples
word: Adam's apple
word: African custard apple
word: alley apple
taxonomic: Annona glabra
word: alligator apple
word: American as apple pie
word: an apple a day
word: an apple a day keeps the doctor away
word: an apple a day keeps the doctor at bay
word: antiapple
word: applanche
word: Apple
word: appleade
word: apple aphid
taxonomic: Aphis pomi
word: apple aphis
taxonomic: Musa acuminata × Musa balbisiana
word: apple banana
word: apple-bearing
word: apple bee
taxonomic: Bombus pomorum
word: apple-bee
word: appleberry
word: apple-berry
taxonomic: Billardiera scandens
word: apple berry
taxonomic: Erwinia amylovora
word: apple blight
word: apple blossom
taxonomic: Anthonomus pomorum
word: apple blossom weevil
word: apple bobbing
word: apple borer
word: apple box
word: apple-box
word: apple brandy
taxonomic: Pandemis heparana
word: apple brown tortrix
taxonomic: Phyllocoptes schlechtendali
word: apple bud and leaf mite
taxonomic: Spilonota ocellana
word: apple bud moth
taxonomic: Anthonomus piri
word: apple bud weevil
word: apple-bug
taxonomic: Bombus pomorum
word: apple bumblebee
word: apple bush
word: applebush
word: apple butter
word: apple cake
alt: Nectria galligena
word: apple canker
word: apple cart
word: apple-cart
word: applecart
word: apple-catchers
word: apple charlotte
word: apple-cheeked
word: apple-cheese
word: apple cheese
word: apple cider
word: apple cider vinegar
taxonomic: Synanthedon myopaeformis
word: apple clearwing moth
word: apple core
word: apple-corer
word: applecrab
word: apple crook
word: apple-crook
word: apple crumble
word: appled
word: apple dandy
word: apple doll
word: apple domain
word: apple-domed
word: apple-dowdy
word: apple-drane
word: apple-drone
word: apple drops
word: apple dumpling
word: apple dumpling shop
word: apple-eating
word: apple-faced
word: apple-fallow
english: Drosophilidae
translation: Drosophilidae
taxonomic: Tephritidae spp.
word: apple fly
word: apple fritter
word: apple fruit weevil
taxonomic: Rhynchites auratus
word: apple fruit rhynchites
word: apple-garth
taxonomic: Pelargonium odoratissimum
word: apple geranium
word: Apple Gifting Day
taxonomic: Rhopalosiphum fitchii
word: apple grain aphid
taxonomic: Rhopalosiphum insertum
word: apple-grass aphid
word: apple green
word: apple-green
word: apple-grey
taxonomic: Gelechia rhombella
word: apple groundling
word: applegrower
word: apple-gum
word: apple head
word: applehead
word: apple-headed
word: apple honey
word: applehood
word: apple ice wine
word: appleish
word: Apple Isle
word: apple-jack
word: applejack
word: apple jacks
word: apple jelly
word: apple jelly nodules
word: apple-john
word: applejohn
word: apple juice
word: apple-knocker
word: apple leaf midge
taxonomic: Lyonetia clerkella
word: apple leaf miner
word: appleless
word: applelicious
word: apple-like
word: applelike
word: apple liqueur
taxonomic: Rhagoletis pomonella
word: apple maggot
word: apple mango
word: apple martini
taxonomic: Sciara mali
word: apple midge
word: apple mint
taxonomic: Mentha rotundifolia
word: applemint
word: apple-monger
word: applemonger
word: apple moss
taxonomic: Bartramia spp.
word: apple-moss
word: apple moth
word: apple-moth
word: apple-mush
word: apple nut
word: apple of Adam
word: apple of discord
word: apple of Grenada
word: apple of love
word: apple of one's eye
word: apple of somebody's eye
word: apple of the eye
word: apple of someone's eye
word: apple of Peru
word: apple of Sodom
word: apple-oil
word: apple orchard
word: apple pandowdy
word: apple pear
taxonomic: Pyrus pyrifolia
word: apple-pear
word: apple-peeler
word: apple-peru
word: apple pie
word: apple pip
word: apple-plum
word: apple-polish
word: apple-polisher
word: apple polisher
word: apple-polishing
word: apple-pomice
word: apple potato bread
word: apple Punic
taxonomic: Stigmella malella
word: apple pygmy moth
word: apple red
word: applerita
word: Apple River
taxonomic: Eriosoma lanigerum
word: apple root aphid
word: apple rose
word: apple rust
word: apple rust mite
word: apples
word: apples and oranges
english: to compare
translation: to compare
word: apples to oranges
word: apples and pears
word: apple sauce
word: applesauce
taxonomic: Hoplocampa testudinea
word: apple sawfly
taxonomic: Venturia inaequalis
word: apple scab
word: apple-scented mint
word: apple schnapps
word: apple-scoop
word: apple scoop
word: apple seed
word: appleseed
word: apple-shaped
english: Pomacea and Pila
translation: Pomacea and Pila
word: apple shell
word: apple-slump
taxonomic: Yponomeuta malinellus
word: apple small ermine moth
word: apple snail
taxonomic: Ampullariidae spp.
word: apple-snail
word: apple snow
word: apples of gold
word: Apples of the Hesperides
word: apple sourpuss
word: apple's queen
word: apple-squire
word: apples to apples
word: apple strudel
word: apple sucker
word: apple summer disease
word: apples with apples
word: appletini
word: Appletise
word: Appletiser
word: Appleton
word: apple tree
word: apple turnover
word: apple twig-cutter
word: apple up
word: Apple Valley
word: Apple Wassail
word: apple-water
word: apple wedger
taxonomic: Anthonomus pomorum
word: apple weevil
word: apple-wife
word: apple wine
word: apple-woman
word: applewoman
word: applewood
taxonomic: Cydia pomonella
word: apple worm
taxonomic: Crataegus spp.
word: applewort
word: appley
word: apple-yard
word: Appleyard
word: a rotten apple spoils the barrel
word: as sure as God made little apples
word: sure as God made little apples
word: bad apple
word: bake-apple
word: bakeapple
word: baked-apple
word: baking apple
word: Baldwin apple
word: balsam apple
taxonomic: Momordica balsamina
word: balm apple
taxonomic: Hippomane mancinella
word: beach apple
word: bell apple
word: bite at the apple
word: bite of the apple
taxonomic: Citrullus colocynthis
word: bitter apple
taxonomic: Pouteria australis
word: black apple
taxonomic: Pereskia aculeata
word: blade apple
word: bob for apples
word: bone apple tea
word: bone apple teeth
word: Bragi's apples
taxonomic: Pouteria australis
word: bush apple
word: candied apple
word: candy apple
word: caramel apple
word: cashew apple
word: cedar apple
taxonomic: Gymnosporangium spp.
word: cedar-apple rust
word: cherpumple
taxonomic: Sorbus torminalis
word: chess-apple
word: cider-apple
word: cockatoo apple
word: cocky apple
word: coconut apple
taxonomic: Datura stramonium
word: common thorn apple
word: compare apples to apples
word: compare apples with apples
word: cranapple
word: Criterion apple
taxonomic: Annona app.
word: custard apple
word: Dead Sea apple
word: Dead-Sea apple
word: desert thorn apple
taxonomic: Datura discolor
word: desert thorn-apple
taxonomic: Datura spp.
word: devil's apple
word: earth-apple
word: earthapple
word: egg apple
taxonomic: Dillenia spp.
word: elephant apple
word: emu apple
word: English as apple pie
word: eye-apple
word: for sour apples
taxonomic: Philonotis fontana
word: fountain apple moss
word: gallapple
word: ghost apple
taxonomic: Aegle marmelos
word: golden apple
word: grapple
taxonomic: Aphis pomi
word: green apple aphid
word: hedgeapple
taxonomic: Maclura pomifera
word: hedge apple
word: hog apple
taxonomic: Morinda citrifolia
word: hogapple
word: horseapple
taxonomic: Maclura pomifera
word: horse apple
word: how about them apples
word: how do you like them apples?
taxonomic: Borassus flabellifer
word: ice apple
word: Indian apple
word: Jamaica apple
taxonomic: Syzygium malaccense
word: Jamaican apple
taxonomic: Syzygium samarangense
word: Java apple
taxonomic: Solanum melongena
word: Jew's apple
word: John-apple
word: June-apple
taxonomic: Solanum vescum
word: kangaroo apple
word: Kei apple
word: kai apple
taxonomic: Dovyalis caffra
word: kei-apple
word: lady apple
word: light brown apple moth
word: love apple
word: Macoun apple
word: mad apple
taxonomic: Syzygium malaccense
word: Malay apple
word: mamey apple
taxonomic: Mammea spp.
word: mammee apple
word: mandrake apple
word: May apple
word: mayapple
word: McIntosh apple
word: median apple
word: Micah Rood's apples
word: mix apples and oranges
word: monkey apple
word: monkey apple tree
taxonomic: Syzygium malaccense
word: mountain apple
word: mulga apple
word: Newton's apple
word: Nittany apple
word: nonapple
word: oak apple
word: one bad apple can spoil the barrel
word: one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
taxonomic: Spondias dulcis
word: Otaheite apple
word: papple
word: pear-apple
taxonomic: Prunus persica
word: Persian apple
taxonomic: Cereus repandus
word: Peruvian apple cactus
word: pineapple
word: pink fir apple
taxonomic: Clusia rosea
word: pitch apple
taxonomic: Solanum aculeastrum
word: poison apple
word: polish the apple
taxonomic: Annona glabra
word: pond apple
word: potato apple
word: potato-apple
taxonomic: Psoralea esculenta
word: prairie apple
taxonomic: Annona muricata
word: prickly custard apple
taxonomic: Punica granatum
word: Punic apple
word: queen apple
taxonomic: Syzygium ingens
word: red apple
word: road apple
english: Angophora costata; Syzygium spp.
translation: Angophora costata; Syzygium spp.
word: rose apple
alt: Dysaphia plantaginea
word: rosey apple aphid
word: rotten apple
word: sage-apple
word: sea apple
word: sea-apple
word: seven-year apple
english: shell-apple
translation: shell-apple
word: sheld-apple
word: she'll be apples
word: she's apples
word: snap apple
word: Snapple
word: snow apple
word: snow-apple
taxonomic: Chlorogalum pomeridianum
word: soap apple
taxonomic: Solanum aculeastrum
word: soda apple
word: Sodom apple
word: sorb apple
word: sorb-apple
taxonomic: Chrysophyllum cainito
word: star apple
word: stocking-apple
taxonomic: Aegle marmelos
word: stone apple
word: street apple
word: sugar apple
taxonomic: Annona squamosa
word: sugar-apple
taxonomic: Annona glabra
word: swamp apple
word: sweet apple
word: table apple
english: toffee apple
translation: toffee apple
word: taffy apple
word: the apple doesn't fall far from the tree
word: the apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest
word: the Big Apple
word: the Little Apple
word: there are bad apples in every orchard
word: there's a rotten apple in every barrel
word: thorn-apple crystal
taxonomic: Datura stramonium
word: thorn apple
word: toffee apple
taxonomic: Solanum viarum
word: tropical soda apple
word: vi-apple
word: vine apple
taxonomic: Syzygium aqueum
word: water apple
taxonomic: Syzygium samarangense
word: wax apple
word: Westbury apple
word: wild balsam apple
word: wild custard apple
word: wine apple
taxonomic: Eremophila debilis
word: winter apple
word: wise apple
word: wise-apple
taxonomic: Solanum lycocarpum
word: wolf apple
taxonomic: Aegle marmelos etc.
word: wood apple
taxonomic: Eriosoma lanigerum
word: woolly apple aphid
word: worm in the apple
word: zombi apple
Related terms: malic