Apples of Sodom

a fruit described by ancient writers as externally of fair appearance but dissolving into smoke and ashes when plucked; Dead Sea apples. The name is often given to the fruit of Solanum Sodomæum, a prickly shrub with fruit not unlike a small yellow tomato.

apples of Sodom

outwardly sound fruit; inwardly rotten. [Class. Myth.: Jobes, 114]See: Deceit

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