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noun
1.
the usually round, red or yellow, edible fruit of a small tree, Malus sylvestris, of the rose family.
2.
the tree, cultivated in most temperate regions.
3.
the fruit of any of certain other species of tree of the same genus.
4.
any of these trees.
5.
EXPANDany of various other similar fruits, or fruitlike products or plants, as the custard apple, love apple, May apple, or oak apple.
6.
anything resembling an apple in size and shape, as a ball, especially a baseball.
7.
Bowling. an ineffectively bowled ball.
8.
COLLAPSESlang. a red capsule containing a barbiturate, especially secobarbital.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English appel, Old English æppel; cognate with Old Frisian, Dutch appel, Old Saxon apl, appul, Old High German apful (German Apfel), Crimean Gothic apel < Germanic *aplu (akin to Old Norse epli < *apljan); Old Irish ubull (neuter), Welsh afal, Breton aval < pre-Celtic *ǫblu; Lithuanian óbuolas, -ỹs, Latvian âbuol(i)s (with reshaped suffix), OPruss woble, perhaps Thracian (din)upla, (sin)upyla wild pumpkin, OCS (j)ablŭko (representing *ablŭ-ko, neuter) < Balto-Slavic *āblu-. Compare Avalon
before 900; Middle English appel, Old English æppel; cognate with Old Frisian, Dutch appel, Old Saxon apl, appul, Old High German apful (German Apfel), Crimean Gothic apel < Germanic *aplu (akin to Old Norse epli < *apljan); Old Irish ubull (neuter), Welsh afal, Breton aval < pre-Celtic *ǫblu; Lithuanian óbuolas, -ỹs, Latvian âbuol(i)s (with reshaped suffix), OPruss woble, perhaps Thracian (din)upla, (sin)upyla wild pumpkin, OCS (j)ablŭko (representing *ablŭ-ko, neuter) < Balto-Slavic *āblu-. Compare Avalon
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| apples (ˈæpəlz) | |
| —pl n | |
| 1. | See apples and pears |
| 2. | informal (Austral), (NZ) she's apples all is going well |
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