Apple

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To grow like an apple; to bear apples.

II. Apple ·noun Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.

III. Apple ·noun Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.

IV. Apple ·noun The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.

V. Apple ·noun 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.

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