apple /apˈl/

1. A tree (Malus domestica) of the rose family, closely related to the pear-tree
2. The firm round edible fruit of this tree
3. Any of various other fruits (eg pineapple, custard apple) or even galls (oak-apple)
4. The wood of the apple tree
5. The fruit of the forbidden tree in the Garden of Eden (Bible)

appˈle-blight noun

American blight, a woolly substance produced by an aphid that infests apple trees

appˈle-blossom noun

apple butter noun

A kind of spread made from stewed apples, sugar and spices

appˈle-cart noun

apple-cheekedˈ adjective

Having full red cheeks

appˈle-jack noun (US)

Apple brandy, distilled from fermented apple juice

appˈle-John noun (Shakespeare, etc)

A variety of apple considered to be in perfection when shrivelled and withered (also John-appˈle)

appˈle-knocker noun (N Am inf)

1. A picker or seller of apples
2. A coarse or dull-witted person

apple of discord noun

Any cause of envy and contention, after the golden apple (in Greek mythology) inscribed ‘for the fairest’, thrown among the gods by Eris, goddess of discord, and claimed by Aphrodite, Pallas and Hera

apple of Sodom or Dead Sea apple noun

1. A fruit described by the ancients as fair to look upon but turning to ashes when touched, variously thought to be a gall, or the fruit of an asclepiad Calotropis procera
2. By botanists applied to the poisonous green-pulped fruit of Solanum sodomaeum
3. Any fair but disappointing thing

apple of the eye noun

1. The pupil of the eye
2. Something or someone especially dear

apple-pieˈ noun

A pie made with apples and usu a pastry crust

adjective

Expressing, containing, or typical of, traditionally-upheld and revered American values

apple-pie bed noun

A bed prepared as a practical joke, eg with sheets doubled up, so as to be impossible or painful to get into

apple-pie order noun

Perfect order

apple polisher noun (N Am inf)

A sycophant

apple sauce noun

A sauce of stewed apples served esp with roast pork

appˈle-squire noun (obsolete)

1. A prostitute's attendant
2. A man kept by a woman as a concubine

apple strudel /strooˈdl/ noun

A sweet pastry containing apples, spices, etc

appˈle-wife or appˈle-woman noun (archaic)

A woman who sells apples at a stall

apples and pears (rhyming sl; often shortened to apples)

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