Apple

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1. Noun

The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.

2. Noun

Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.

3. Noun

Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.

4. Noun

Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.

5. Verb

To grow like an apple; to bear apples.

6. Noun

fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
Vocabulary classified under Biology

7. Noun

native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
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