appling

Examples

• All

• Birds often eat applings before they have a chance to ripen.

• The children picked a few applings from the lower branches of the tree.

• The tree is full of applings this year.

• Look at that tiny appling on the branch.

• In early summer, the orchard was filled with tiny green applings.

• Birds often eat applings before they have a chance to ripen.

• The children picked a few applings from the lower branches of the tree.

Synonyms

A

apple

vsappling

87 1.0

A tree that grows round fruit people eat

is a small young fruit rather than the whole tree or mature produce

C

codling

vsappling

• Archaic

8.2

A small tart apple used for cooking rather than eating raw

is a young, not fully grown fruit rather than defined by cooking use

F

fruitlet

vsappling

• Specialized

7.7

A small fruit that grows as one part of a larger group, like a raspberry piece

is specifically a young fruit of one tree species rather than any tiny fruit

How Big

apple tree

21 1.0

appling

• Archaic

9.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology