APPLE

apple

(noun) fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

apple, orchard apple tree, Malus pumila

(noun) native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

apple (plural apples)

A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates. [from 9th c.]

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.]

The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit. [from 11th c.]

A tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree. [from 15th c.]

The wood of the apple tree. [from 19th c.]

(in the plural, Cockney rhyming slang) Short for apples and pears, slang for stairs. [from 20th c.]

(baseball, slang, obsolete) The ball in baseball. [from 20th c.]

(informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.

(pejorative, ethnic slur) A Native American or red-skinned person who acts and/or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.

(ice hockey slang) An assist.

Verb

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

To become apple-like.

(obsolete) To form buds.

Anagrams

• Appel, appel, pepla

Proper noun

Apple

(trademark) The company Apple Inc, formerly Apple Computer, that produces computers and other digital devices.

(with "the") A nickname for New York City, usually “the Big Apple”.

A multimedia corporation (Apple Corps) and record company (Apple Records) founded by the Beatles.

(rare) A female given name from English.

A surname.

Noun

Apple (plural Apples)

A computer produced by the company Apple Inc.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Apple is the 5,050^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6,948 individuals. Apple is most common among White (89.45%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Appel, appel, pepla

Source: Wiktionary

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Ap"ple, n. Etym: [OE. appel, eppel, AS. æppel, æpl; akin to Fries. & D. appel, OHG, aphul, aphol, G. apfel, Icel. epli, Sw. äple, Dan. æble, Gael. ubhall, W. afal, Arm. aval, Lith. ob, Russ. iabloko; of unknown origin.]

1. The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.

Note: The European crab apple is supposed to be the original kind, from which all others have sprung.

2. (bot.)

Definition: 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.

Note: 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, n.

– Apple borer (Zoöl.), a coleopterous insect (Saperda candida or bivittata), the larva of which bores into the trunk of the apple tree and pear tree.

– Apple brandy, brandy made from apples.

– Apple butter, a sauce made of apples stewed down in cider. Bartlett.

– Apple corer, an instrument for removing the cores from apples.

– Apple fly (Zoöl.), any dipterous insect, the larva of which burrows in apples. Apple flies belong to the genera Drosophila and Trypeta.

– Apple midge (Zoöl.) a small dipterous insect (Sciara mali), the larva of which bores in apples.

– Apple of the eye, the pupil.

– Apple of discord, a subject of contention and envy, so called from the mythological golden apple, inscribed "For the fairest," which was thrown into an assembly of the gods by Eris, the goddess of discord. It was contended for by Juno, Minerva, and Venus, and was adjudged to the latter.

– Apple of love, or Love apple, the tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum).

– Apple of Peru, a large coarse herb (Nicandra physaloides) bearing pale blue flowers, and a bladderlike fruit inclosing a dry berry.

– Apples of Sodom, a fruit described by ancient writers as externally of air appearance but dissolving into smoke and ashes plucked; Dead Sea apples. The name is often given to the fruit of Solanum Sodomæum, a prickly shrub with fruit not unlike a small yellow tomato.

– Apple sauce, stewed apples. [U. S.] -- Apple snail or Apple shell (Zoöl.), a fresh-water, operculated, spiral shell of the genus Ampullaria.

– Apple tart, a tart containing apples.

– Apple tree, a tree naturally bears apples. See Apple, 2.

– Apple wine, cider.

– Apple worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a small moth (Carpocapsa pomonella) which burrows in the interior of apples. See Codling moth.

– Dead Sea Apple. (a) pl. Apples of Sodom. Also Fig. "To seek the Dead Sea apples of politics." S. B. Griffin. (b) A kind of gallnut coming from Arabia. See Gallnut.

Ap"ple, v. i.

Definition: To grow like an apple; to bear apples. Holland.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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