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Definition of Apple

1. Noun. Fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh.

2. Noun. Native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits.

Definition of Apple

1. n. The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.

2. v. i. To grow like an apple; to bear apples.

Definition of Apple

1. Proper noun. (context with '''''the''''') A nickname for New York City, usually “the Big Apple”. ¹

2. Proper noun. (trademark) A multimedia corporation (w:Apple Corps Apple Corps) and record company (w:Apple Records Apple Records) founded by the w:Beatles Beatles. ¹

3. Proper noun. (trademark) Name of the company w:Apple Inc. Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, that produces computers and other digital devices. ¹

4. Proper noun. (trademark) A computer produced by the company Apple Inc. ¹

5. Proper noun. (rare) (English female given name). ¹

6. Noun. A common, round fruit produced by the tree ''Malus domestica'', cultivated in temperate climates. ¹

7. Noun. A tree growing such fruit, of the genus ''Malus''; the apple tree. ¹

8. Noun. The wood of the apple tree. ¹

9. Noun. (context: in the plural Cockney rhyming slang) Short for '''apples and pears''', slang for stairs. ¹

10. Noun. (context: baseball slang obsolete) The ball in baseball. ¹

11. Noun. (context: informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Apple

1. an edible fruit [n -S]

Medical Definition of Apple

1. 1. The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones. The European crab apple is supposed to be the original kind, from which all others have sprung. 2. Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree. 3. Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple. 4. Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold. Apple is used either adjectively or in combination; as, apple paper or apple-paper, apple-shaped, apple blossom, apple dumpling, apple pudding. Apple blight, an aphid which injures apple trees. See Blight, Apple borer, the larva of a small moth (Carpocapsa pomonella) which burrows in the interior of apples. See Codling moth. Dead Sea Apple. Apples of Sodom. Also Fig. "To seek the Dead Sea apples of politics." . A kind of gallnut coming from Arabia. See Gallnut. Origin: OE. Appel, eppel, AS. Aeppel, aepl; akin to Fries. & D. Appel, OHG, aphul, aphol, G. Apfel, Icel. Epli, Sw. Aple, Dan. Aeble, Gael. Ubhall, W. Afal, Arm. Aval, Lith. Oblys, Russ. Iabloko; of unknown origin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apple

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applauseometer applauses applausive applausometer applausometers apple-berry apple-cheeked apple-corer apple-corers apple-green

apple-john apple-johns apple-pie apple-pie bed apple-pie beds apple-pie order apple-polish apple-polisher apple-sauce

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