apple

noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    A round fruit with red, green, or yellow skin and crisp white flesh, grown on trees of the rose family.

  2. 2.

    The tree that bears apples.

Phrases & expressions

  • •
    apple of one's eye — someone or something cherished above all others
  • •
    apple pie order — perfect order or neatness
  • •
    bad apple — a person who has a negative influence on others
  • •
    apple doesn't fall far from the tree — children often resemble their parents

Related words

See also: apples, fruit

Etymology

From Old English aeppel, from Proto-Germanic aplaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European ab(e)l- "apple."