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Definition of Apple tree

1. Noun. Any tree of the genus Malus especially those bearing firm rounded edible fruits.

Definition of Apple tree

1. Noun. Any cultivar of the ''Malus domestica'' tree. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apple Tree

Literary usage of Apple tree

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

1. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"THE PLANTING OF THE APPLE- TREE Come, let us plant the apple-tree. Cleave the tough greensward with the Wide let its hollow bed be made; There gently lay ..."

2. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"The Soulard apple occurs locally from Minnesota to Texas. It is large leaved and stout of stature, with pink-flushed blossoms, like an orchard apple tree. ..."

3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1840)
"The bright sun arose, and the Apple-tree there- Waved proud in the glory of spring, ... The Apple-tree gazed on the message in green, Read the words it so ..."

4. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1856)
"Very respectfully, Ac. REMARKS ON apple tree BORERS, AND SOME OTHER "PESTS OF ... of this insect so closely resemble those of the Eastern Apple-tree Borer, ..."

5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"THE PLANTING OF THE APPLE-TREE. And press it o'er them tenderly, As, round the sleeping infant's feet, We softly fold the cradle-sheet; So plaut we the ..."

6. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1882)
"... described in Maine in 1794, has ever since that time infested the apple tree particularly, although found upon other fruit trees and upon the currant. ..."

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