apple

Meanings

Plural: apples

Noun

• fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
• native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits
• A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
• The fruit of the tree Malus domestica, chiefly with a green, red, or yellow skin, cultivated in temperate climates for cidermaking, cooking, and eating.
• A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
• Often with a qualifying word: any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing (such as a cone or gall) produced by a plant, especially if from a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica (sense 1.1).
• A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
• Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour.
• Ellipsis of Adam's apple (“the lump in the throat, usually more noticeable in men than in women; the laryngeal prominence”).
• A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
• Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour.
• Ellipsis of apple-green (“a bright green colour with a light tint of yellow, like that of a Granny Smith apple”).
• A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
• Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour.
• Ellipsis of apple of the eye (“the pupil, or pupil and iris, of the eye, originally believed to be spherical; also, the eyeball”).
• A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
• Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour.
• The round, fleshy part of a cheek between the eye and the corner of the mouth when a person is smiling.
• A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
• Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour.
• The surface of revolution of a circular arc of an angle greater than 180° rotated about the straight line passing through the arc's two endpoints.
• A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
• Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour.
• In full apple bowl: a round bowl of a tobacco pipe; also, a tobacco pipe with such a bowl.
• A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
• Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour.
• In full old apple: a baseball.
• A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
• Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour.
• A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
• According to postbiblical Christian tradition, the fruit of the tree of knowledge which was eaten by Adam and Eve despite God commanding them not to do so; the forbidden fruit.
• A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
• Synonym of pome (“a type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels”).
• A tree of the genus Malus; especially Malus domestica which is cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
• Synonym of applewood (“the wood of the apple tree”).
• Synonym of CBer (“a CB radio enthusiast”).
• An assist.
• A Native American or redskinned person who acts or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.

Verb

• To make (something) appear like an apple (noun sense 1.1).
• To become like an apple.
• To collect fir-cones.
• Of a flower bud or vegetable (especially a root vegetable): to grow into the shape of an apple.

Synonyms

applewood, CBer, malus, Malus pumila, orchard apple tree, pome

Related Words

malic