apple
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From Old English æppel (“‘fruit, apple’”) < Proto-Germanic *apala- < Proto-Indo-European *abl-, *ablu-. Cognate with Scots aipple, Dutch appel, German Apfel, Swedish äpple; and (from IE) with Irish úll, Lithuanian obuolys, Russian яблоко (jábloko), Serbian јабука (jabuka).
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apple (plural apples)
- A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates.
- A tree growing such fruit, of the genus Malus; the apple tree.
- The wood of the apple tree.
- (in plural, Cockney rhyming slang) Short for apples and pears.
- (baseball, slang, obsolete) The ball in baseball.
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terms derived from apple
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fruit
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tree — see apple tree
wood
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apples and pears (Cockney rhyming slang) — see apples and pears
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