APPLE

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

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

2.
n.

Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.

3.
n.

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.
n.

Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.

5.
v.

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

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