apple
A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
Other meanings
The fruit of the tree Malus domestica, chiefly with a green, red, or yellow skin, cultivated in temperate climates for cidermaking, cooking, and eating.
Often with a qualifying word: any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing (such as a cone or gall) produced by a plant, especially if from a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica ().
A kind of
- edible fruit
- false fruit
Kinds of apple
- eating apple
- cooking apple
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "æppel" (apple; any type of fruit; (figurative) ball, sphere; eyeball).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “apple” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.