horse apple

English

Noun

horse apple (plural horse apples)

1. Alternative form of horseapple
   • 2006, Mary Kent, Simple Ordinary Stuff, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 156:

     While I wandeered around the yard watching this strange scenario, the thought occurred to me that we could gather up the horse apples from our neighbor’s yard, wrap plastic wrap around them and tell people they were gourmet popcorn balls! They couldn’t really see well enough in the dark to tell what they were. (For the non-Texans; horse apples are about the size of a grapefruit and are green, bumpy popcorn-looking balls that fall from the Bois d’ Arc tree and have a sticky, milky juice that oozes after being squished by cars.) Proper people call horse apples the fruit of the Bois d’ Arc tree.

   • 2012, Betty Junkin Guest, Once Upon a Falling Star, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 80:

     We were headed back to the bois d’arc trees for more horse apples when Granny called for me.

   • 2018, Brett Babbitt, “The Horse Apple War”, in Told Rush: The Mysterious Life of Brett Babbitt and Billy the Kids GHOST!, Christian Faith Publishing, →ISBN:

     A terrible fruit if you ever tried to taste one, but oh, what a great throwing weapon! Others call them Osage oranges or hedge apples. […] There were fallen horse apples everywhere! The most we had ever seen.