apple

Meanings

Noun

• A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates.
• Any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing produced by a plant such as a gall or cone, especially if produced by a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of specific fruits such as custard apple, rose apple, thorn apple etc.
• Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica, such as a globe, ball, or breast.
• The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.
• A tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
• The wood of the apple tree.
• Short for apples and pears, slang for stairs.
• A Native American or red-skinned person who acts and/or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.
• An assist.
• A CB radio enthusiast.

Verb

• To become apple-like.
• To form buds, bulbs, or fruit.

Related

Similar words

• malus

Origin

• From Middle English appel, from Old English æppel ("apple, fruit in general, ball"), from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz ("apple") (compare Scots aipple, West Frisian apel, Dutch appel, German Apfel, Swedish äpple, Danish æble), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl, *h₂ébl̥ (compare Welsh afal, Irish úll, Lithuanian óbuolỹs, Russian я́блоко, possibly Ancient Greek ἄμπελος ("vine")).