Complete Definition of "apple"

see|Apple|A.P.P.L.E.|äpple
English
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Etymology
OE. æppel �fruit, apple� < Ger. *apala- < IE. *abl-, *ablu-. Cognate with Scots aipple, Dutch appel#Dutch|appel, German Apfel, Swedish äpple; and (from IE) with Irish úll, Lithuanian obuolys, Russian �блоко, Serbian �аб�ка.

Pronunciation
enPR|�pʹ�l, IPA|/�æp�l/, SAMPA|/"{p@l/
audio|en-us-apple.ogg|Audio (US)

Noun
Image:Apple red delicius flower end.jpg|thumb|A red apple
en-noun

  1. A common round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates.
  2. A tree growing such fruit, of the genus Malus; the apple tree.
  3. The wood of the apple tree.
  4. context|in plural|Cockney rhyming slang Short for apples and pears.
  5. context|baseball|slang|obsolete The ball in baseball.

Derived terms
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Adam's apple
alligator apple
an apple a day, an apple a day keeps the doctor away
Apple
apples and oranges, apples to oranges
apples and pears
apple aphid, apple-aphis
apple-bee
apple-berry
apple blight
apple blossom
apple borer
apple-box
apple brandy
apple brown tortrix
apple bud and leaf mite
apple bud moth
apple bud weevil
apple-bug
apple butter
apple cake
apple canker
applecart
apple charlotte
apple-cheeked
apple-cheese
apple cider
apple clearwing moth
apple core
apple-corer
apple-crook
apple crumble
appled
the apple doesn't fall far from the tree
apple domain
apple-domed
apple-dowdy
apple-drane, apple-drone
apple drops
apple dumpling
apple dumplin shop
apple-eating
apple-faced
apple-fallow
apple fly
apple fritter
apple fruit weevil
apple fruit rhynchites
apple-garth
apple geranium
apple grain aphid
apple-grass aphid
apple green, apple-green
apple-grey
apple-gum
apple head, applehead
apple-headed
apple ice wine
Apple Isle
apple-jack, applejack
apple jacks
apple jelly
apple jelly nodules
apple-john
apple juice
apple-knocker
apple leaf miner
appleless
apple liqueur
apple maggot
apple martini
apple midge
apple mint, applemint
apple-monger
apple-mose
apple-moss
apple-moth
apple nut
apple of Adam
apple of discord
apple of love
apple of Peru
apple of Sodom
apple of somebody's eye, apple of the eye
apple-oil
apple orchard
apple pandowdy
apple-pear
apple-peeler
apple-peru
apple pie<!--"apple-pie bed", "apple-pie order" and "as American as apple pie" all moved to "apple pie"-->
apple-plum
apple-polish
apple-polisher
apple-polishing
apple-pomice
apple potato bread
apple Punic
apple pygmy moth
apple root aphid
apple rust
apple rust mite
apples<!--short form of "apples and pears" and "apples and rice", Cockney and Australian rhyming slang respectively-->
apples and pears<!--Cockney rhyming slang for "stairs"-->
apple sauce, applesauce
apple sawfly
apple scab
apple schnapps
apple-scoop
apple seed, appleseed
apple shell
apple small ermine moth
apple-snail
apple-slump
apple snow
apples of gold
apple of one's eye, apple of somebody's eye
Apples of the Hesperides
apple sourpuss
apple's queen
apple-squire
apple strudel
apple sucker
apple tart
appletini
Appletise&reg;, Appletiser&reg;
apple tree
apple turnover
apple twig-cutter
w:Apple Valley|Apple Valley
Apple Wassail
apple-water
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apple wedger
apple weevil, apple blossom weevil
apple-wife
apple wine
apple-woman
applewood
apple worm
apple-wort
apple-yard
a rotten apple spoils the barrel
as sure as God made little apples, sure as God made little apples
bad apple
bake-apple, bakeapple, baked-apple
baking apple
Baldwin apple
balm-apple
balsam apple
bell apple
the Big Apple
bitter apple
blade apple
bob for apples
bobbing for apples
Bragi's apples
candied apple, candy apple
caramel apple
cashew apple
cedar apple
cedar-apple rust
cherry apple
chess-apple
cider-apple
common thorn apple
compare apples and oranges
compare apples with apples
cooking apple
crab apple, crabapple
Criterion apple
custard apple
Dead-Sea apple
desert thorn-apple
dessert apple
devil's apple
devil's apples
earth-apple
eating apple
egg apple
elephant apple
golden apple
green apple aphid
hedge apple
hogapple
horseapple
how do you like them apples?
Indian apple
Jamaica apple
java apple
Jew's apple
John-apple
<!--moved to "appleseed" *w:Johnny Appleseed|Johnny Appleseed-->
June-apple
kai apple
kangaroo apple
kei-apple
lady apple
the Little Apple
love apple
Macoun apple
mad apple
Malay apple
mamey apple
mammee apple
mandrake apple
May apple, mayapple
McIntosh?
median apple
Micah Rood's apples
monkey apple
monkey apple-tree
oak apple, oak-apple
Otaheite apple
pear-apple
Persian apple
Peruvian apple cactus
pineapple
pink fir apple
pitch apple
polish the apple
pond apple
potato apple, potato-apple
prairie apple
prairie crab apple
prickly custard apple
Punic apple
queen apple
road apple
road apples
rose apple
rotten apple
sage-apple
sea-apple
seven-year apple
sheld-apple, shell-apple
she'll be apples, she's apples
Snapple&reg;
snow-apple
soap apple
sorb-apple
southern crab apple
star apple
stocking-apple
stone apple
sugar apple
sweet apple
taffy apple, toffee apple
thorn apple
toffee apple
tropical soda apple
<!--moved to "applecart": *upset the applecart-->
vi-apple
vine apple
water apple
wax apple
Westbury apple
wild apple
wild balsam apple
wine apple
winter apple
wolf apple
wood apple
woolly apple aphid
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Translations
trans-top|fruit
Albanian: t-|sq|mollë|f|xs=Albanian
Alabama: takkólchoba
Arabic: ARchar|ت�احة (tufá:ħa) f
Armenian: Õ­Õ¶Õ±Õ¸Ö� (khndzor)
Bengali: BNchar|��পল
Bosnian: t-|bs|jabuka|f
Breton: aval m, avaloù p
Bulgarian: t-|bg|�б�лка|f|trjab�lka|scCyrl
Belarusian: �бл�к (jáblyk)
Catalan: poma f
Cherokee: ��� (s�gata)
Chinese
Croatian: t+|hr|jabuka|f
Czech: t+|cs|jablko|n
Danish: t+|da|æble
Dutch: t+|nl|appel|m
Erzya: �ма�� (umary), �ад �ма�� (sad umary)
Esperanto: t-|eo|pomo|xs=Esperanto
Estonian: t+|et|õun
Filipino: mansanas f
Finnish: t+|fi|omena
French: t+|fr|pomme|f
Georgian: ����� (vashli)
German: t+|de|Apfel|m
Greek: μήλο (mîlo) n
Hebrew: תפ��|תַּפּ�ּ�ַ (tapuakh) m
Hindi: स�ब (seb)
Hungarian: t+|hu|alma
Icelandic: t+|is|epli|n
Indonesian: apel (2)
Irish: t-|ga|úll|m|xs=Irish
Italian: t+|it|mela|f
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Japanese: �� (���, ringo)
Korean: �과 (sagwa)
Kurdish: t+|ku|sêv, t+|ku|س��|sc=KUchar
Latin: t-|la|malum|n
Latvian: t+|lv|�bols|m|xs=Latvian
Lithuanian: t+|lt|obuolys|m|xs=Lithuanian
Malagasy: paoma
Malay: t+|ms|epal|xs=Malay
Maltese: tuffieħa
Marathi: सफर��द (safarchand)
Neapolitan: mìlo, méla
Norwegian: t|no|eple|n
Novial: pome
Occitan: poma f
Old Church Slavonic: tø|cu|абл�ко|n|trablŭko|scCyrl|xs=Old Church Slavonic
Old English: t+|ang|æppel|xs=Old English
Ossetic: ���к��� (fætquı)
Persian: FAchar|س�ب (sib)
Polish: t+|pl|jab�ko|n
Portuguese: t+|pt|maçã|f
Punjabi: ਸਿ� (si�), ਸ�ਬ (s�b)
Rohingya: sép
Romanian: t+|ro|m�r|n
Romany: a�ái; �ab��y
Russian: t+|ru|�блоко|n|trjábloko|scCyrl
Scots: aipple
Scottish Gaelic: ubhal m
Serbian:

Sindhi: SDchar|ص��|ص���� (soofu) m
Slovak: t-|sk|jablko|n
Slovene: t+|sl|jabolko|n
Spanish: t+|es|manzana|f
Swedish: t+|sv|äpple|n
Tajik: �еб
Tamil: �ப�பழம� (aappazham)
Turkish: t+|tr|elma
Ukrainian: t+|uk|�бл�ко|n|trjabluko|scCyrl|xs=Ukrainian
Urdu: URchar|س�ب (seb)
Vietnamese: t-|vi|quả táo|xs=Vietnamese
Walloon: peme
Welsh: afal
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trans-top|tree
See apple tree
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trans-top|wood
Finnish: t+|fi|omenapuu
French: t-|fr|pommier|m
German: Apfelholz n
Greek: μηλιά (mīljá) f
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Russian: t+|ru|�блон�|f|trjáblonja|scCyrl
Serbian: jabukovina f
Slovene: jablanovina f
Swedish: apelträ n
Turkish: t+|tr|elma
Vietnamese: g� táo
Welsh: coeden afalau, (lit.)afallen
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trans-top|apples and pears (Cockney rhyming slang)
See apples and pears
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Translations to be checked
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ttbc|Galician: maceira f (1), mazá f (2)
ttbc|Kannada: (Sebu)

See also
malic

Category:1000 English basic words
Category:Fruits
Category:Trees

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