Word Finder - apple

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A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates.

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Any of various tree-borne fruits or vegetables especially considered as resembling an apple; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of other specific fruits such as custard apple, rose apple, thorn apple etc.

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The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.

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A tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.

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The wood of the apple tree.

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(in the plural) Short for apples and pears, slang for stairs.

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The ball in baseball.

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When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.

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A Native American or red-skinned person who acts and/or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.

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(ice hockey slang) An assist.

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To become apple-like.

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To form buds.

Is that apple pie I smell?

All signs of the palace were swept away, replaced by neat lines of apple trees that ran all the way to the beach beyond.

Fred was absent when they arrived home, but returned just as Cynthia was cutting a warmed apple pie for a late afternoon snack.

When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall?

Some creative brunch recipes include an apple and brie crepe, a cheesy pesto crepe or the strawberry short crepe.

Elisabeth grabbed the apple and took a bite.

Finish your meal with apple pie, ice cream or a sundae.

He'd buried his emotions for Claire there, among the apple trees where he'd first met her.

He sheathed his weapons and Traveled to where the beach met the apple orchard.

Dessert selections such as red velvet cake, chocolate crème brulee and apple pie ravioli are sure to delight guests with a sweet tooth.

Finish your dinner with chocolate mousse or cinnamon apple fritters.

He looked longingly at an apple pie fresh from the oven.

In the middle is an apple tree marked with a ring of stones.

The mistletoe so extensively used in England at Christmas is largely derived from the apple orchards of Normandy; a quantity is also sent from the apple orchards of Herefordshire.

Webster has observed ants, foreseeing this emigration, to carry aphids from apple trees to .grasses.

In Europe a number of " long-snouted " beetles, such as the raspberry weevils (Otiorhynchus picipes), the apple blossom weevil (Anthonomus pomorum), attack fruit; others, as the " corn weevils " (Calandra oryzae and C. granaria), attack stored rice and corn; while others produce swollen patches on roots (Ceutorhynchus sulcicollis), &c. All these Curculionidae are very timid creatures, falling to the ground at the least shock.

He knew that an apple should not be plucked while it is green.

When Dean pointed out a nice restaurant where he could collect the lunch he'd earned for making the trip, Fred reached over to the back seat and pro­duced a paper bag, containing two peanut butter and jelly sand­wiches and an apple.

Parkside was no safer than the worst of the worst—we might as well be living in Philadelphia, or, God forbid, The Big Apple!

He recalled growing up and running around the apple orchard with his little brother and the children of the palace.

Orchards of apple and apricot surround the villages.

Come back in April or May to see the spectacular apple blossom.

Most people buy Apple TV, but a few buy the Roku XDS Streaming Player.

The owner of the axe, as he released his hold on it, said that it was the apple of his eye; but I returned it sharper than I received it.

It will fall of itself when ripe, but if picked unripe the apple is spoiled, the tree is harmed, and your teeth are set on edge.

Finish your meal with one of eight desserts, including warm apple crumb tart, crème brulee and chocolate sin cake for a perfectly indulgent meal.

With its annual pumpkin patch picking and apple picking in the autumn, visiting any of the county's numerous farms is a treat any time of the year.

Above her, bees buzzed around the aromatic apple blossoms.

He trotted down the stairs from his palace to the apple orchard that stretched from his home to the imperial city beyond.

The dry desert heat gave way to cool sea breeze, and a massive apple tree protected her from the sun overhead.

Fortunately Morino saw the ad for Apple Hors Devours in the local paper and recognized Alfonso's cell phone number before they made their first sale.

The form of the pear and of the apple respectively, although usually characteristic enough, is not by itself sufficient to distinguish them, for there are pears which cannot by form alone be distinguished from apples, and apples which cannot by superficial appearance be recognized from pears.

In the formation of the trees the same plan may be adopted as in the case of the apple.

As in .` the case of the apple disease it forms large irregular blackish blotches on the fruit and leaves, the injury being often very severe especially in a cool, damp season.

In many years quite half the apple crop is lost in England owing to the larvae destroying the fruit.

The former attacks apple and pear; the latter, which selects orange and citron, was introduced into America from Australia, and carried ruin before it in some orange districts until its natural enemy, the lady-bird beetle, Vedalia cardinalis, was also imported.

A, Winged female; B, winged D, viviparous wingless female from in patches from old apple trees, where the insects live in the rough bark and form cankered growths both above and below ground.

Among the larger trees are the mountain cedar, reaching to 100 ft.; the gob, which bears edible berries in appearance something like the cherry with the taste of an apple, grows to some 80 ft., and is found fringing the river beds; the hassadan, a kind of euphorbia, attaining a height of about 70 ft.; and the darei, a fig tree.

It is about the size of an ordinary apple tree, with small leaves like the willow, and a drooping habit like a weeping birch, and has an edible fruit like a yellow plum called " mangaba," for which, rather than for the rubber, the tree is cultivated in some districts.

Spring sets in with remarkable rapidity and charm at the end of April; but in the second half of May come the " icy saints' days," so blighting that it is impossible to cultivate the apple or pear.

The oak, elm, hazel, ash, apple, lime and maple disappear to the east of the Urals, but reappear in new varieties on the eastern slope of the border-ridge of the great plateau.

Other wild fruits are the so-called Cape gooseberry (not native to Natal) and the kaw apple or Dingaan apricot, which grows on a species of ebony tree.

Among fruit trees, besides the wild fruits already mentioned, are the pineapple, mango, papua, guava, grenadilla, rose apple, custard apple, soursop, loquat, naartje, shaddock and citrous fruits.

The arsenals of Pola and Cattaro were already in the hands of the insurgents; and the Emperor Charles, in the hope either of winning the favour of the new regime in Zagreb or of throwing an apple of discord between it and the Entente, signed a decree on Oct.

The low ground between it and the shore, and between the Niagara escarpment and the water on the Canadian shore, is a celebrated fruit growing district, covered with vineyards, peach, apple and pear orchards and fruit farms. The Niagara river is the main feeder of the lake; the other largest rivers emptying into the lake are the Genesee, Oswego and Black from the south side, and the Trent, which discharges into the upper end of the bay of Quinte, a picturesque inlet 70 m.

Altdorf is best known as the place where, according to the legend, William Tell shot the apple from his son's head.

Among fruit trees the vine, apricot, peach, apple, quince, fig and banana are cultivated in the highlands, and in the lower country the date palm flourishes, particularly throughout the central zone of Arabia, in Hejaz, Nejd and El Hasa, where it is the prime article of food.

It derived its name from the abundance and luxuriance of the apple, pear and other fruit trees in the neighbourhood.

Varro speaks of its apple trees which gave fruit twice in the year and Pliny praises its wine also.

The citron, sour orange, lemon and lime grow wild; but the apple and peach do not come to perfection.