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Definition apple

Etymology

From Middle English appel, from Old English æppel (“apple, any kind of fruit, fruit in general, apple of the eye, ball, anything round, bolus, pill”), from Proto-Germanic *aplaz (“apple”) (compare Scots aipple, West Frisian apel, Dutch appel, German Apfel, Swedish äpple, Danish æble), from Proto-Indo-European *h?éb?l, *h?ébl? (“apple”) (compare Welsh afal, Irish úll, Lithuanian óbuol?s, Russian ??????? (jábloko), possibly Ancient Greek ??????? (ámpelos, “vine”)).

Noun

apple (plural apples)

1. A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates. [from 9th c.]
2. Any of various tree-borne fruits or vegetables especially considered as resembling an apple; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of other specific fruits such as custard apple, rose apple, thorn apple etc. [from 9th c.]
3. The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit. [from 11th c.]
4. A tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree. [from 15th c.]
5. The wood of the apple tree. [from 19th c.]
6. (in the plural, Cockney rhyming slang) Short for apples and pears, slang for stairs. [from 20th c.]
7. (baseball, slang, obsolete) The ball in baseball. [from 20th c.]
8. (informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.
9. (derogatory, ethnic slur) A Native American or red-skinned person who acts and/or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.
10. (ice hockey slang) An assist.

Verb

apple (third-person singular simple present apples, present participle appling, simple past and past participle appled)

1. To become apple-like.
2. (obsolete) To form buds.

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