Sentence:  We searched for the famous <WSD>apple of Sodom</WSD>, and found two kinds of fruit, either of which, with the help of a little poetic imagination, might pass for the fruit in question. ... The other fruit, which we observed, and which seems to me more like the apple in question, grows around Jericho. It looks very inviting, but its taste is extremely bitter and disagreeable. One of the Arabs told me it was poisonous. w:François-René de Chateaubriand 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A gigantic tree supposed to have grown on the site of the destroyed cities Sodom and Gomorrah (see Genesis 18–19 in the Bible), the apples of which would turn to ash and smoke once picked.