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ap·ple (ap′əl)

noun

  1. a round, firm, fleshy, edible fruit with a green, yellow, or red skin and small seeds
  2. any of the trees (genus Malus) of the rose family bearing this fruit, widely distributed in temperate regions
  3. any of various plants bearing applelike fruits, or growths, as the May apple, love apple, etc.

Etymology: ME appel < OE æppel, fruit, apple (also, eyeball, anything round); akin to OIr aball (Welsh afall), apple tree

apple Idioms

the Apple

the Big Apple

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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