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The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.

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  1. n. The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.
  2. n. Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.
  3. n. 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.
  4. n. Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.
  5. v. i. To grow like an apple; to bear apples.
  6. n. fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
  7. n. native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits
  8. Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the baseof the fruit; an apple tree.
  9. n:100 n. fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh n. native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits