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An apple is a round fruit with red or green skin and a whitish inside. One variety of apple might be sweet, another sour.

The apple isn't just a fruit. It's a symbol — from the apples eaten by Adam and Eve in the Biblical creation story, which symbolize the loss of innocent to the expression "American as apple pie" to mean something that is wholesome. The "apple of your eye" is the person who delights you — maybe you are the apple of your grandfather's eye. He might tell you, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," meaning the fruit is good for your health.

DEFINITIONS OF: apple

n native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits

Synonyms:: Malus pumila, orchard apple tree

Type of:: apple tree
any tree of the genus Malus especially those bearing firm rounded edible fruits

n fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

Types:: show 22 types...; hide 22 types...; crab apple, crabapple
small sour apple; suitable for preserving; dessert apple, eating apple
an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking; cooking apple
an apple used primarily in cooking for pies and applesauce etc; Baldwin
an American eating apple with red or yellow and red skin; Cortland
large apple with a red skin; Delicious
variety of sweet eating apples; Empire
an eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh; used as both an eating and a cooking apple; Grimes' golden
yellow apple that ripens in late autumn; eaten raw; Jonathan
red late-ripening apple; primarily eaten raw; McIntosh
early-ripening apple popular in the northeastern United States; primarily eaten raw but suitable for applesauce; Northern Spy
large late-ripening apple with skin striped with yellow and red; Pearmain
any of several varieties of apples with red skins; Pippin
any of numerous superior eating apples with yellow or greenish yellow skin flushed with red; Prima
used primarily as eating apples; Stayman
apple grown chiefly in the Shenandoah Valley; Winesap
crisp apple with dark red skin; Stayman Winesap
crisp tart apple; good for eating raw and suitable for cooking; Bramley's Seedling
very large cooking apple; Granny Smith
apple with a green skin and hard tart flesh; Lane's Prince Albert
apple used primarily in cooking; Newtown Wonder
apple used primarily in cooking; Rome Beauty
large red apple used primarily for baking

Type of:: edible fruit
edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh; false fruit, pome
a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part

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