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Apple

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Noun

1. apple

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

2. apple, malus pumila, orchard apple tree

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Apple

see synonyms of apple
noun
1. 
a rosaceous tree, Malus sieversii, native to Central Asia but widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties, having pink or white fragrant flowers and firm rounded edible fruits
See also crab apple
2. 
the fruit of this tree, having red, yellow, or green skin and crisp whitish flesh
3. 
the wood of this tree
4. 
any of several unrelated trees that have fruits similar to the apple, such as the custard apple, sugar apple, and May apple
See also love apple, oak apple, thorn apple
5.  apple of one's eye
6.  bad apple

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Apple

see synonyms of apple
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.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Apple

see synonyms of apple
n.
1.
a. A cultivated deciduous tree (Malus domestica or M. pumila) in the rose family, native to Eurasia and having alternate simple leaves and white or pink flowers.
b. The firm, edible, usually rounded fruit of this tree.
2.
a. Any of several other plants, especially those with fruits suggestive of the apple, such as the crabapple or custard apple.
b. The fruit of any of these plants.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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