apple

One entry found for apple.

Main Entry: ap·ple
Pronunciation: 'a-p&l
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English appel, from Old English æppel; akin to Old High German apful apple, Old Irish ubull, Old Church Slavic abluko
1 : the fleshy usually rounded red, yellow, or green edible pome fruit of a usually cultivated tree (genus Malus) of the rose family; also : an apple tree -- compare CRAB APPLE
2 : a fruit (as a star apple) or other vegetative growth (as an oak apple) suggestive of an apple
- apple of one's eye : one that is highly cherished <his daughter is the apple of his eye>