apple
Other forms: apples
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.
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native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruitssynonyms: Malus pumila, orchard apple treetype of:apple treeany tree of the genus Malus especially those bearing firm rounded edible fruits
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fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish fleshtypes:cooking applean apple used primarily in cooking for pies and applesauce etcBaldwinan American eating apple with red or yellow and red skinCortlandlarge apple with a red skinDeliciousvariety of sweet eating applesEmpirean eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh; used as both an eating and a cooking appleGrimes' goldenyellow apple that ripens in late autumn; eaten rawJonathanred late-ripening apple; primarily eaten rawMcIntoshearly-ripening apple popular in the northeastern United States; primarily eaten raw but suitable for applesauceNorthern Spylarge late-ripening apple with skin striped with yellow and redPearmainany of several varieties of apples with red skinsPippinany of numerous superior eating apples with yellow or greenish yellow skin flushed with redPrimaused primarily as eating applesStaymanapple grown chiefly in the Shenandoah ValleyWinesapcrisp apple with dark red skinStayman Winesapcrisp tart apple; good for eating raw and suitable for cookingBramley's Seedlingvery large cooking appleGranny Smithapple with a green skin and hard tart fleshLane's Prince Albertapple used primarily in cookingNewtown Wonderapple used primarily in cookingRome Beautylarge red apple used primarily for bakingtype of:edible fruitedible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet fleshfalse fruit, pomea fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
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Vocabulary lists containing apple
The words on this list do not denote color in and of themselves, but you can (and should) use them that way. They'll brighten your writing and make your descriptions more visually specific -- think apple green as opposed to bright green.
