Meaning

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

originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl Proto-Germanic *aplaz Proto-West Germanic *applu Old English æppel Middle English appel English apple The noun is derived from Middle English appel (“Malus domestica fruit or tree, apple; any type of fruit, nut, or tuber; tree bearing fruit; (figurative) ball, sphere; (Christianity) forbidden fruit in Eden”), from Old English æppel (“apple; any type of…

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