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Apple is a producer and manufacturer of technological equipment and software.
(noun)An example of Apple is the company that makes the iPod.
The definition of an apple is a fruit that comes from a tree and can be green, red, or yellow.
(noun)An example of an apple is fruit that serves as filling for a pie around Thanksgiving.
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See apple in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a round, firm, fleshy, edible fruit with a green, yellow, or red skin and small seeds
- any of the trees (genus Malus) of the rose family bearing this fruit, widely distributed in temperate regions
- any of various plants bearing applelike fruits, or growths, as the May apple, love apple, etc.
Origin: ME appel < OE æppel, fruit, apple (also, eyeball, anything round); akin to OIr aball (Welsh afall), apple tree
See apple in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- a. A deciduous Eurasian tree (Malus pumila) having alternate simple leaves and white or pink flowers.b. The firm, edible, usually rounded fruit of this tree.
- a. Any of several other plants, especially those with fruits suggestive of the apple, such as the crab apple or custard apple.b. The fruit of any of these plants.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English appel
Origin: , from Old English ǽppel
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