apple Definition

apple
noun

1. Any of numerous varieties of a small deciduous tree with pink or white flowers and edible fruit.
2. The firm round edible fruit of this tree, which has a green, red or yellow skin and white flesh, and is eaten fresh or cooked, or used to make fruit juice, cider, etc.


Example: apple-blossom
Example: apple-corer


Example: apple-green

Derivative: Adam's apple

See separate entry.

Idiom: apples and pears

(ockney rhyming slang)
Stairs.

Idiom: in apple-pie order

Neat and tidy.

Idiom: the apple of one's eye

Someone's favourite person.
Example: That baby is just the apple of her eye

Derivative: the Big Apple

See separate entry.

Idiom: upset the apple cart

To disrupt carefully made plans.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon æppel.