'Apple' definitions:
Definition of 'apple'
From: WordNet
noun
Fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
noun
Native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits [syn: apple, orchard apple tree, Malus pumila]
Definition of 'Apple'
From: Easton
- Apple (Heb. tappuah, meaning "fragrance"). Probably the apricot or quince is intended by the word, as Palestine was too hot for the growth of apples proper. It is enumerated among the most valuable trees of Palestine (Joel 1:12), and frequently referred to in Canticles, and noted for its beauty (2:3, 5; 8:5). There is nothing to show that it was the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil." Dr. Tristram has suggested that the apricot has better claims than any other fruit-tree to be the apple of Scripture. It grows to a height of 30 feet, has a roundish mass of glossy leaves, and bears an orange coloured fruit that gives out a delicious perfume. The "apple of the eye" is the Heb. _ishon_, meaning manikin, i.e., the pupil of the eye (Prov. 7:2). (Comp. the promise, Zech. 2:8; the prayer, Ps. 17:8; and its fulfilment, Deut. 32:10.)
- The so-called "apple of Sodom" some have supposed to be the Solanum sanctum (Heb. hedek), rendered "brier" (q.v.) in Micah 7:4, a thorny plant bearing fruit like the potato-apple. This shrub abounds in the Jordan valley. (See ENGEDI.)
Words containing 'Apple'
- Appling,
- Apple Creek,
- Apple River,
- Apple Valley,
- Apple borer,
- Apple of discord,
- Appling County,
- Appling, GA,
- Balsam apple,
- Big Apple,
- Bitter apple,
- Crab apple,
- Custard apple,
- Earth apple,
- Elephant apple,
- Kangaroo apple,
- Love apple,
- Mad apple,
- Malay apple,
- May apple,
- Pine Apple,
- Queen apple,
- Rose apple,
- Sea apple,
- Sorb apple,
- Star apple,
- Sweet apple,
- The Big Apple,
- Thorn apple,
- To bob at an apple,
- Vine apple,
- Wine apple,
- Winter apple,
- Wood apple,
- adam's apple,
- apple aphid,
- apple blight,
- apple butter,
- apple canker,
- apple dumpling,
- apple fritter,
- apple geranium,
- apple jelly,
- apple juice,
- apple maggot,
- apple mint,
- apple nut,
- apple of peru,
- apple orchard,
- apple pie,
- apple polisher,
- apple polishing,
- apple rust,
- apple sauce,
- apple tart,
- apple tree,
- apple turnover,
- bell apple,
- blade apple,
- candied apple,
- candy apple,
- caramel apple,
- cherry apple,
- cooking apple,
- dessert apple,
- devil's apples,
- eating apple,
- golden apple,
- jamaica apple,
- kai apple,
- kei apple,
- madrona apples,
- mammee apple,
- oak apple,
- pitch apple,
- pond apple,
- soap apple,
- sugar apple,
- taffy apple,
- toffee apple,
- wild apple,
- Apple Creek, OH,
- Apple River, IL,
- Apple Valley, CA,
- Apple Valley, MN,
- Appling County, GA,
- Chess-apple,
- John-apple,
- Mad-apple,
- Pine Apple, AL,
- Vi-apple,
- Wild balsam apple,
- american crab apple,
- apple-scented,
- apple-shaped,
- apple-sized,
- common thorn apple,
- cultivated crab apple,
- custard apple tree,
- green apple aphid,
- iowa crab apple,
- kei apple bush,
- orchard apple tree,
- oregon crab apple,
- prickly custard apple,
- siberian crab apple,
- sorb apple tree,
- southern crab apple,
- western crab apple,
- woolly apple aphid,
- Dead-Sea apple,
- Seven-year apple,
- baked-apple berry,
- cedar-apple rust,
- custard-apple family,
- pond-apple tree,
- rose-apple tree