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ˈlove-apple
Also apple of love.
[tr. F. pomme d'amour, G. liebesapfel. (A 16th c. example in Lacurne refers to the use of the fruit as a philtre; but possibly this notion may have been suggested by the name.)]
The fruit of the tomato, Lycopersicum esculentum. † Formerly also applied to the brinjal, Solanum esculentum.
1578Lyte Dodoens iii. lxxxv. 438 There be two kindes of Amorus or Raging Love apples. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lv. §5. 275 The apple of Loue is called in Latine..Poma Amoris. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. xxxi. 294 There is at the Indies any good thing that Spaine brings foorth..as..Becengenes, or apples of love,..vetches, and finally whatsoever groweth heere of any profite. 1707–12Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 211 Apples of Love. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xvi. (1795) 201 Tomatos or Love-Apple..is also admitted to the table and eaten with impunity. 1825Greenhouse Comp. I. 235 Baron Tschoudi..informs us that he has grafted the love-apple on the potatoe.
allusively.1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr., Living Lustres, I mean the love-apples that bloom in the eyes. |