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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.

– derivatives
appley adjective.

– origin OE æppel, of Gmc origin.