apple tree
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- noun
- /ˈæpəl tri/
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manzano
- The farmer planted several apple trees in the orchard to increase his harvest.
There's a black bear in the apple tree and he won't come down.
- There's a black bear in the apple tree and he won't come down.
- And, and the, the bee is basically moving the genes of this apple tree around the neighborhood.
- Does it only give itself one chance to reproduce and have more apple trees?
- Not long after I started watching that TV programme, I was getting some apples from the apple tree.
- In a Meadow behind the paddock, they saw an apple tree and watched as its branches rustled in a breeze.
- You know, if I see like an apple tree a mile away, well, I can go over and pick an apple.
- If you want apple tree, you need to plant the apple seed.
- So we've got sunlight and apple trees in the foaming hand wash.
- So there's the apple tree, a little bit more mature.
- They have a an apple tree, magical apple tree in the back in their backyard.
Examples
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Since the war of '79, they always met at the apple tree to talk.
Academic text (2007) -
So there's the apple tree, a little bit more mature.
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I thought I seen an apple tree in the valley.
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Oh yeah, these are definitely apple trees.
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You were going to have a party... -...under the apple tree.
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We had an apple tree in the backyard.
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Yeah, sure, he invented physics, but he was surprised when an apple tree fell on his head while he was sitting under an apple tree.
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You live under an apple tree and the apple tree produces so many apples you don't know what to do.
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Halfway between the barn and the apple tree, the snow was piled in a deep drift.
Fiction book (1997) -
"Two years ago," says Sheffer, "we lost 400 apple trees to fire blight."
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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A tree that grows round fruit people eat
A tree that grows rounded, edible fruits called apples
A tree grown for its apples that people eat
A group of trees that includes apple and crabapple trees
How Big
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- Archaic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a tree that produces apples' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'apple' and 'tree'—the compound names the type of tree by its fruit. This simple noun–noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic naming pattern and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Apple tree is a two-word name that shows the fruit and the plant: apple is the fruit and tree is the plant that grows it. Imagine a tree full of round, red apples, and that clear picture explains why it means 'a tree that grows apples'.