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An apple from a tree raised from the seed and not grafted; a seedling apple.

A brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances.

aves and solitary flower. There are two species, the American Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi.

and with oblique white stripes on the sides, feeds on the oak, chestnut, willow, cherry, apple, and other trees. It produces a large amount of strong silk. Called also American silkworm.

The substance of apples, or of similar fruit, crushed by grinding.

Like an apple or pear; producing pomes.

erfumed ointment; esp., a fragrant unguent for the hair; pomatum; -- originally made from apples.

s inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.

Dappled. [Obs.] "Pomely gray." Chaucer.

A kind of sweet, juicy apple. [Written also pomwater.] Shak.

A figure supposed to resemble an apple; a roundel, -- always of a green color.

Bearing pomes, or applelike fruits.

A small European fish, similar to the cod, but of inferior quality. Poor-john and apple pies are all our fare. Sir J. Harrington.

An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.

A sort of apple. [Obs.] Rider's Dict. (1640).

The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris. Pin-hole pupil (Med.), the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole. Dunglison.

A genus of rosaceous trees and shrubs having pomes for fruit. It includes the apple, crab apple, pear, chokeberry, sorb, and mountain ash.

l, esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in women's clothing. Sometimes pejorative. Queen apple. Etym: [Cf. OE. quyne aple quince apple.] A kind of apple; a queening. "Queen apples and red cherries." Spenser. -- Queen bee (Zoöl.), a female bee, especially the female of the honeybee. See Honeybee. -- Queen conch (Zoöl…

Any one of several kinds of apples, as summer queening, scarlet queening, and early queening. An apple called the queening was cultivated in England two hundred years ago.

crystalline substance, occurring quite widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, as is apple-tree bark, horse- chestnut leaves, etc., but originally obtained by the decomposition of quercitrin. Called also meletin.