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单词 apple
释义

apple

[ ap-uhl ]
/ ˈæp əl /
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noun

Origin of apple

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-.Cf. Avalon

Words nearby apple

applanation tonometer, applanometry, applaud, applaudable, applause, apple, apple a day, apple bee, apple blight, apple blossom, apple box
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Example sentences from the Web for apple

British Dictionary definitions for apple

apple
/ (ˈæpəl) /

noun

a rosaceous tree, Malus sieversii, native to Central Asia but widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties, having pink or white fragrant flowers and firm rounded edible fruitsSee also crab apple
the fruit of this tree, having red, yellow, or green skin and crisp whitish flesh
the wood of this tree
any of several unrelated trees that have fruits similar to the apple, such as the custard apple, sugar apple, and May appleSee also love apple, oak apple, thorn apple
apple of one's eye a person or thing that is very precious or much loved
bad apple or rotten apple a person with a corrupting influence
See also apples

Word Origin for apple

Old English æppel; related to Old Saxon appel, Old Norse apall, Old High German apful
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Idioms and Phrases with apple

apple

The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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