apple
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
apple/ˈapl/
▶noun
- 1 the rounded fruit of a tree of the rose family, with green or red skin and crisp flesh.
- 2 the tree which bears apples. [Genus Malus: numerous cultivated forms.]
- 3 used in names of similar unrelated fruits, e.g. custard apple.
– phrases
the apple of one's eye a person of whom one is extremely fond and proud. [orig. denoting the pupil of the eye, extended as a symbol of something cherished.]
apples and pears Brit. rhyming slang stairs.
a rotten (or bad) apple informal a corrupt person in a group, likely to have a detrimental influence on the others.
upset the apple cart spoil a plan.
the apple of one's eye a person of whom one is extremely fond and proud. [orig. denoting the pupil of the eye, extended as a symbol of something cherished.]
apples and pears Brit. rhyming slang stairs.
a rotten (or bad) apple informal a corrupt person in a group, likely to have a detrimental influence on the others.
upset the apple cart spoil a plan.
– derivatives
appley adjective.
appley adjective.
– origin OE æppel, of Gmc origin.
'apple' also found in these Oxford entries:
Adam's apple
- apostrophe
- apple-cheeked
- apple-pie bed
- apple-pie order
- biffin
- big
- bitter apple
- Blenheim Orange
- bloom
- Braeburn
- Bramley
- Calvados
- candy apple
- cashew apple
- chamomile
- cherimoya
- chrysoprase
- cider
- codling
- cooker
- Costard
- costermonger
- Cox
- crab apple
- custard apple
- datura
- dumpling
- eating apple
- gala
- Golden Delicious
- Granny Smith
- greening
- jimson weed
- love apple
- McIntosh
- malic acid
- mammee
- manchineel
- manzanita
- marmalade
- medlar
- melon
- oak apple
- pandowdy
- peach
- Pearmain
- pineapple
- pippin
