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▸ noun: Any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing produced by a plant such as a gall or cone, especially if produced by a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of specific fruits such as custard apple, rose apple, thorn apple etc.
▸ noun: Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica, such as a globe, ball, or breast.
▸ noun: (baseball, slang, obsolete) The ball in baseball.
▸ noun: (informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.
▸ noun: The Adam's apple.
▸ noun: (Christianity) The fruit of the tree of knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to modern Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.
▸ noun: A tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
▸ noun: The wood of the apple tree.
▸ noun: (derogatory, ethnic slur) A Native American or redskinned person who acts or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.
▸ noun: (ice hockey, slang) An assist.
▸ noun: (slang) A CB radio enthusiast.
▸ noun: (geometry) The surface of revolution of a circular arc of angle greater than 180° rotated about the straight line passing through the arc’s two endpoints.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To make or become apple-like.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To form buds, bulbs, or fruit.
▸ noun: (with "the") A nickname for New York City, usually “the Big Apple”.
▸ noun: (trademark) A company/corporation.
▸ noun: The company Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, that produces computers and other digital devices, and sells and produces multimedia content.
▸ noun: A multimedia corporation (Apple Corps) and record company (Apple Records) founded by the Beatles.
▸ noun: (rare, countable) A female given name from English.
▸ noun: (countable) A surname.
▸ noun: A computer produced by the company Apple Inc.
▸ noun: (in the plural, Cockney rhyming slang) Short for apples and pears (“stairs”). [(Cockney rhyming slang) stairs]
Similar:
malus pumila,
orchard apple tree,
pear,
Braeburn,
orchard,
peach,
Macintosh,
fruit,
Bramley,
cider,
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