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apple - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'apple' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Apple [ n.]
- The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.
- Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.
- 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.
- Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.
2 . Apple [ v. i.]
- To grow like an apple; to bear apples.