apple
- noun
- /ˈæpəl/
- In the fall, we visited an apple orchard to pick our own fruit.
- apple tree
- apple orchard
- apple rootstock
Examples
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"Two years ago," says Sheffer, "we lost 400 apple trees to fire blight."
Academic text (1999) -
Go to the apple orchard.
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I brought you some of my mom's apple pie.
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In all, the scientists returned from Central Asia with 949 apple tree accessions.
Academic text (2006) -
Rory's house was adrift in old apple trees, heavy overgrowth, and weeds as large as trees.
Fiction book (1993) -
Trees shed pollen, and the air was redolent of apple and pear blossoms.
Fiction book (1990) -
I picked a delicious apple from the tree in my backyard.
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For lunch, I packed a sandwich and a fresh apple as a snack.
Synonyms
A tree that grows round sweet fruits called apples
A tree that grows rounded, edible fruits called apples
A tree grown for its apples that people eat
Idioms
Children often look and behave like their parents
Compounds
A sweet, smooth food made by cooking and mashing apples, often with sugar and spices
- US
A thick sweet spread from apples slowly cooked with sugar and spices until smooth
- US
A small tree that stays green all year and is used to grow roots for other fruit trees
- Specialized
A small evergreen tree with edible fruit used as a root for other fruit trees
- Specialized
A disease caused by a fungus that makes orange spots on the leaves and fruit of apple and pear trees
A tall poisonous plant with bad-smelling leaves, large trumpet-shaped flowers, and spiky fruit
A group of mainly tropical trees and shrubs that includes the custard apple and related fruit trees
- Specialized
A small apple tree grown for its tart fruit or pretty spring flowers
A sweet alcoholic drink with apple taste often served after a meal or in cocktails
A small plant with leaves that taste cool and smell like apples and are used in cooking and tea
A tall tropical plant that grows quickly, smells strong, has large trumpet-shaped flowers, and prickly poisonous fruit
- Specialized
A disease that makes apple tree leaves and fruit rot and can kill trees
- Specialized
A small bright green insect that eats apple tree leaves and makes them curl
A creeping plant that lives many years and makes soft yellow-orange berries that taste like baked apples
- Indian
A tropical climbing plant with yellow flowers and bright orange bumpy fruit often grown for decoration or medicine
- Specialized
A North American plant with large umbrella leaves, a poisonous root, and an edible yellow fruit
- South African
A spiny shrub from South Africa that grows round yellow fruit you can eat
- South African
A South African fruit with a sweet apricot-like smell and taste used for jams and pickles
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Etymology
Apple also names the tree because people first used the word for the fruit and then for the plant that makes it. The same old German word lives on in German Apfel and Dutch appel, which helps explain why we call the plant an apple tree.