Lexic.us

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

applaudably applauded applauder applauders applauding applaudingly applauds applausable applause applauseless

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

Literary usage of Apple

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"Sometimes called simply apple ; ' the poor people supply themselves with very ... This apple is well known in Cheshire, and is so called because it is ripe ..."

2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"As though hli eyes wem apple-gray; And ¡f good learning he hid not tooke, ... It is also called an apple-jack, and is made by folding sliced apples with ..."

3. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"WHAT AILS THE BIG RED apple? By WALTER V. WOEHLKE L THE average cow town is romantic and thrilling— on the flickering screen and the printed page; ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"... the Paradise-apple, the Famagusta, the Codling, the Costard-apple, the Sops in Wine. "Thirdly, the apples that are best for making Cyder : The ..."

5. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1899)
"These modern folk-notions about the apple have to do chiefly, ... A girl removes the peel of an apple in one long strip, throws it back over her head, and, ..."

6. Life-zone Indicators in California by Harvey Monroe Hall, Marcos Sastre, William Hamilton Gibson, Joseph Grinnell (1919)
"There is the oak-apple, a gall produced by the sting of an insect; cedar-apple, a fungus; tomatoes were called love-apples, and potatoes, ground-apples ..."

7. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1905)
"I have never yet known a man, woman, or child that did not like a good apple; nor would I care to know one, as it would be so unnatural that it would ..."

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