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apple noun & verb.

A. noun.
The round firm fruit of a tree of the rose family, Malus domestica, cultivated in innumerable varieties in the temperate zones. Also, an apple tree. OE.
Any fruit, esp. one which in some respects resembles an apple. Also, a gall. Usu. with specifying word in particular names, e.g. oak-apple, thorn-apple. OE.
balsam apple, crab-apple, custard-apple, May-apple, oak-apple, pineapple, etc.
The forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3:6). OE.
Something resembling an apple in form or colour. OE.
Phrases: Adam's apple: see ADAM noun. apple of discord a subject of dissension (from the golden apple inscribed 'for the fairest' contended for by Hera, Athene, and Aphrodite). apple of love: see LOVE noun. apple of one's eye, apple of the eye (a) the pupil; (b) the person or thing most cherished. apple of Peru (a) a Peruvian plant of the nightshade family, Nicandra physalodes, bearing bluish flowers and round brown fruit; (b) N. Amer. the thorn-apple, Datura stramonium. apple of Sodom, Sodom apple = DEAD SEA fruit. apples (and pears) rhyming slang stairs. (as) sure as God made little apples colloq. with complete certainty. Sodom apple: see apple of Sodom above. the Apple, the Big Apple US slang New York City. WAGENER apple. See also APPLES.
Comb.: apple-bee dial. a wasp; apple brandy spirit distilled from cider; apple-butter N. Amer. a spread of spiced stewed apple, usu. made with cider; apple-cart a cart for carrying apples; upset someone's apple-cart, upset the apple-cart, (fig.) spoil someone's plans, ruin an undertaking; apple-green adjective & noun yellowish green; apple-head a domed head of a toy dog; applejack (a) N. Amer. apple brandy; (b) dial. sliced apple baked in pastry; apple-john [said to be ripe on St John's Day] a kind of apple eaten when much withered; apple-peru N. Amer. = apple of Peru (b) above; apple-polisher N. Amer. a toady; apple sauce (a) apples stewed to a pulp; (b) N. Amer. insincere flattery, nonsense; apple-squire a pimp; apple strudel baked spiced apples in flaky pastry; apple tree (a) a tree which bears apples; (b) Austral. any of various indigenous trees, chiefly eucalypts; apple-woman a woman who sells apples from a stall.
b. verb.
verb trans. & intrans. Form or turn into apples; bear apples. OE.
b. Of a turnip: swell into globular shape. Now rare or obsolete. E18.
verb intrans. Gather apples. L18.