Definición de "apple"

Frecuencia de uso de la palabra

apple

(æpəl

)

Formas de la palabra: plural apples

1. sustantivo variable A1

An apple is a round fruit with smooth green, yellow, or red skin and firm white flesh.

I want an apple.

...2kg cooking apples.

...his ongoing search for the finest varieties of apple.

...a large garden with apple trees in it.

2. See also Adam's apple, Big Apple, crab apple

See the apple of your eye

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apple in British English

(ˈæpəl

)

sustantivo

a rosaceous tree, Malus sieversii, native to Central Asia but widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties, having pink or white fragrant flowers and firm rounded edible fruits.

apple in American English

(ˈæpəl )

sustantivoOrigin: ME appel < OE æppel, fruit, apple (also, eyeball, anything round); akin to OIr aball (Welsh afall), apple tree

a round, firm, fleshy, edible fruit with a green, yellow, or red skin and small seeds

any of the trees (genus Malus) of the rose family bearing this fruit, widely distributed in temperate regions

any of various plants bearing applelike fruits, or growths, as the May apple, love apple, etc.

4. (pl.) slang

a troublesome response, fact, or state of affairs [in such sarcastic or reproving phrases as how do you like them (or those) apples? and how about them (or those) apples?]

Modismos:

compare apples and oranges

the Apple

Frecuencia de uso de la palabra

apple in American English

(ˈæpəl)

sustantivo

the usually round, red or greenish-yellow, edible fruit of a small tree, Malus sylvestris, of the rose family

the tree, cultivated in most temperate regions

the fruit of any of certain other species of tree of the same genus

any of these trees

any of various other similar fruits, or fruitlike products or plants, as the custard apple, love apple, May apple, or oak apple

anything resembling an apple in size and shape, as a ball, esp. a baseball

7. Tenpin Bowling

an ineffectively bowled ball

8. slang

a red capsule containing a barbiturate, esp. secobarbital

Origen de la palabra apple

[bef. 900; ME appel, OE æppel; c. OFris, D appel, OS apl, appul, OHG apful (G Apfel), Crimean Goth apel ‹ Gmc *aplu (akin to ON epli ‹ *apljan); OIr ubull (neut.), Welsh afal, Breton aval ‹ pre-Celtic *ǫblu; Lith óbuolas, -ỹs, Latvian âbuol(i)s (with reshaped suffix), OPruss woble, perh. Thracian (din)upla, (sin)upyla wild pumpkin, OCS (j)ablŭko (repr. *ablŭ-ko, neut.) ‹ Balto-Slavic *āblu-. Cf. avalon]

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Note first the apples and pears argument.Or was it a ghost apple? Raise a glass to apple growers.Pour in the apples and any remaining lemon juice.Prep the custard and apples in advance. Think green apples and elderflower. An apple tree, in London.There was a large fenced garden filled with apple trees.But a few bad apples fail to spoil a lively and diverse barrel.White flowers followed by spectacular show of rounded, bright yellow crab apples well into winter.

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Which tree am I?

any of various tropical trees with red or orange flowers, such as flame-of-the-forest

dogwood flame tree silky oak

Which tree am I?

a tall eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus microcorys, of coastal regions, having soft fibrous bark and conical fruits and yielding a greasy timber

banyalla redwood wandoo

Which tree am I?

any N temperate betulaceous shrub or tree of the genus Alnus, having toothed leaves and conelike fruits. The bark is used in dyeing and tanning and the wood for bridges, etc because it resists underwater rot

alder plane spruce

Which tree am I?

a tall coniferous tree, Araucaria heterophylla, native to Norfolk Island and widely cultivated

almond Norfolk Island pine spruce

Which tree am I?

a coniferous evergreen tree of New Zealand, Podocarpus spicatus, having a bluish bark and small linear leaves arranged in two rows: timber used for flooring and weatherboards

black pine Scots pine spruce

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