Definition
• | The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones. |
• | Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree. |
• | Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple. |
• | Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold. |
• | To grow like an apple; to bear apples. |