apple-bearing

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From apple +‎ bearing. Compare Old English æppelbǣre (literally apple-bearing).

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apple-bearing (comparative more apple-bearing, superlative most apple-bearing)

  1. Bearing, producing, or capable of producing apples
    • 2001, Modern Greek Studies Yearbook:
      It would not be very flattering to the teaching profession if I were to enumerate to you how many times I was punished in order to be compelled to say, right or wrong, that an apple tree was an apple-bearing tree.

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