APPLE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (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

Synonyms:

apple; Malus pumila; orchard apple tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

Credits

Context examples:

By the apple of Eve! cried the fat knight, it appears to me that this wind brings a very savory smell of garlic and of onions from their cooking-kettles.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With two behavioral and electroencephalographic experiments, the study demonstrated that people of normal weight tend to associate natural foods such as apples with their sensory characteristics such as sweetness or softness.

(Our Weight Tells How We Assess Food, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A team of researchers, led by Kim McConkey from the University of Nottingham, set out to study one particular tree, the Platymitra macrocarpa from the family of custard apple trees.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

A Cornell University-led team that included Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists found that apple orchards with diverse bee species yield more, high-quality fruit than orchards with fewer, closely related bee species.

(Diverse Bee Communities Best for Apple Orchards, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Apple has implemented the patch in the beta versions of their operating system iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS, however it is yet to roll out patches for stable operating systems.

(Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol, Wikinews)

There was no name on his clothing, and nothing in his pockets save an apple, some string, a shilling map of London, and a photograph.

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

His smile of benevolence was a wonderful thing, when his cheeks would suddenly bunch into two red apples, between his half-closed eyes and his great black beard.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Literally, I was (what he often called me) the apple of his eye.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Jo spent the morning on the river with Laurie and the afternoon reading and crying over The Wide, Wide World, up in the apple tree.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Oh! What a sweet little cottage there is among the trees—apple trees, too!