Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
apple (noun)1.
the fleshy usually rounded red, yellow, or green edible pome fruit of a usually cultivated tree (genus ) of the rose family - Malus , also an apple tree - compare crab apple
2.
a fruit (as a star apple) or other vegetative growth (as an oak apple) suggestive of an apple
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