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apple-tree
1. A tree which bears apples.
a1100in Wright Voc. 79/2 Malus, æpeltre. a1300Cursor M. 1367 Pepins..quilk a þe appel tre he nam. 1447Lyvys of Seyntys 54 b/2 He that..hys appyltre Eche day watryth. c1525Skelton Replyc. 157 Suche apple tre, suche frute. 1805Southey Madoc in W. xiv. Wks. V. 105 The crooked apple-trees, Grey with their fleecy moss and misseltoe.
2. In Australia applied to various indigenous trees, esp. to a species of Eucalyptus (= apple-gum: see apple n. B. II), and to another myrtaceous tree, Angophora subvelutina.
1801in Hist. Rec. Australia (1915) III. 414 The Timber at the back blue-gum and apple trees. 1820J. Oxley Jrnl. Exped. N.S. Wales 187 That species of eucalyptus which is vulgarly called the apple tree. 1885Mrs. C. Praed Head Station I. iv. 60 A giant eucalyptus of the kind called ‘appletree’. 1885Spons' Mechanics' Own Bk. 127 Apple (Australian) (Angophora subvelutina). The so-called apple-tree of Queensland yields planks 20–30 in. in diameter. |