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. |
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