Usually means: Insect larva that infests apples.
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  1. apple-borer, apple borer: Wordnik
  2. apple borer: Wiktionary
  3. Apple borer: Dictionary.com
  4. apple borer: FreeDictionary.org
  5. Apple borer: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (apple borer)

noun:  Any beetle or moth that bores into the trunks of apple and other fruit trees as larvae
noun:  a roundheaded apple borer (Saperda candida, syn. Saperda bivittata)
noun:  a flatheaded appletree borer (Chrysobothris femorata)
noun:  a red-belted clearwing, apple clearwing moth (Synanthedon myopaeformis)

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