apple

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[edit] English

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A red apple

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From Middle English appel, from Old English æppel (apple, any kind of fruit, fruit in general, apple of the eye, ball, anything round, bolus, pill), from Proto-Germanic *aplaz (apple) (compare Scots aipple, Dutch appel, German Apfel, Swedish äpple), from Proto-Indo-European *hₐébl̥, *hₐebōl (compare Irish úll, Lithuanian óbuolỹs, Russian яблоко (jábloko), possibly Ancient Greek ἄμπελος (ampelos, vine)).

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  • apl (Jamaican English)

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apple (plural apples)

  1. A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates.
  2. A tree growing such fruit, of the genus Malus; the apple tree.
  3. The wood of the apple tree.
  4. (in the plural, Cockney rhyming slang) Short for apples and pears, slang for stairs.
  5. (baseball, slang, obsolete) The ball in baseball.
  6. (informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.

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