APPLE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does apple mean? 

• APPLE (noun)
  The noun APPLE has 2 senses:

1. fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

2. native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits

  Familiarity information: APPLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("apple" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

false fruit; pome (a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apple"):

crab apple; crabapple (small sour apple; suitable for preserving)

dessert apple; eating apple (an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking)

cooking apple (an apple used primarily in cooking for pies and applesauce etc)

Holonyms ("apple" is a part of...):

apple; Malus pumila; orchard apple tree (native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

apple; Malus pumila; orchard apple tree

Hypernyms ("apple" is a kind of...):

apple tree (any tree of the genus Malus especially those bearing firm rounded edible fruits)

Meronyms (parts of "apple"):

apple (fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh)

Holonyms ("apple" is a member of...):

genus Malus; Malus (apple trees; found throughout temperate zones of the northern hemisphere)

 Context examples 

Then she carefully gathered the apples together in a heap and walked on again.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Said another way, the opposition can feel like two halves of an apple coming together to make a whole, or it can feel like a tug of war.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

For three days I lived off guavas, ohia-apples, and bananas, all of which grew wild in the jungle.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His hair and whiskers were shot with grey, and his face was all crinkled and puckered like a withered apple.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Examples of oxidation are rust and the brown color on a cut apple.

(Oxidation, NCI Dictionary)

Now, just after sundown, when all my work was over and I was on my way to my berth, it occurred to me that I should like an apple.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A structure consisting of the fertilized and immature ovules ("seeds") and the ovary wall, which may be fleshy (as in the apple) or dry and hard (as in a maple fruit).

(Fruit, Immature, Food and Drug Administration)

A structure consisting of the fertilized and mature ovules ("seeds") and the ovary wall, which may be fleshy (as in the apple) or dry and hard (as in a maple fruit).

(Fruit, Food and Drug Administration)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles apple.

(Apple Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

My first impression of my uncle as he entered the room was that one of his eyes was swollen to the size of an apple.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)