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▸ noun: The fruit of the tree Malus domestica, chiefly with a green, red, or yellow skin, cultivated in temperate climates for cidermaking, cooking, and eating.
▸ noun: Often with a qualifying word: any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing (such as a cone or gall) produced by a plant, especially if from a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica (sense 1.1).
▸ noun: (informal) The round, fleshy part of a cheek between the eye and the corner of the mouth when a person is smiling.
▸ noun: (geometry) The surface of revolution of a circular arc of an angle greater than 180° rotated about the straight line passing through the arc's two endpoints.
▸ noun: (smoking) In full apple bowl: a round bowl of a tobacco pipe; also, a tobacco pipe with such a bowl.
▸ noun: (obsolete, baseball, slang) In full old apple: a baseball.
▸ noun: (Christianity) According to postbiblical Christian tradition, the fruit of the tree of knowledge which was eaten by Adam and Eve despite God commanding them not to do so; the forbidden fruit.
▸ noun: (obsolete, botany) Synonym of pome (“a type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels”)
▸ noun: A tree of the genus Malus; especially Malus domestica which is cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
▸ noun: Synonym of applewood (“the wood of the apple tree”)
▸ noun: (by extension, slang)
▸ noun: (amateur radio) Synonym of CBer (“a CB radio enthusiast”)
▸ noun: (ice hockey) An assist.
▸ noun: (US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Native American or redskinned person who acts or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make (something) appear like an apple (noun sense 1.1).
▸ verb: (intransitive)
▸ verb: To become like an apple.
▸ verb: (UK, dialectal, rare) To collect fir-cones.
▸ verb: (obsolete except UK, dialectal) Of a flower bud or vegetable (especially a root vegetable): to grow into the shape of an apple.
▸ noun: (with "the") A nickname for New York City, usually “the Big Apple”.
▸ noun: (trademark) A company/corporation.
▸ noun: The company Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, that produces computers and other digital devices, and sells and produces multimedia content.
▸ noun: A multimedia corporation (Apple Corps) and record company (Apple Records) founded by the Beatles.
▸ noun: (rare, countable) A female given name from English.
▸ noun: (countable) A surname.
▸ noun: A computer produced by the company Apple Inc.
▸ noun: Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica (sense 1.1) in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour. [(anatomy) The lump in the throat, usually more noticeable in men than in women; the laryngeal prominence.]
▸ noun: Short for Adam's apple (“the lump in the throat, usually more noticeable in men than in women; the laryngeal prominence”). [(anatomy) The lump in the throat, usually more noticeable in men than in women; the laryngeal prominence.]
▸ noun: Short for apple-green (“a bright green colour with a light tint of yellow, like that of a Granny Smith apple”). [A bright green colour with a light tint of yellow, like that of a Granny Smith apple.]
▸ noun: (historical) Short for apple of the eye (“the pupil, or pupil and iris, of the eye, originally believed to be spherical; also, the eyeball”). [The pupil, or pupil and iris, of the eye, originally believed to be spherical; also, the eyeball.]
Similar:
malus pumila,
orchard apple tree,
pear,
Braeburn,
orchard,
peach,
Macintosh,
fruit,
Bramley,
cider,
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