/ ˈæpl; NAmE / noun
a round fruit with shiny red or green skin and firm white flesh :
an apple pie
apple sauce
a garden with three apple trees
—see also Adam's apple , Big Apple , cooking apple , crab apple , eating apple , toffee apple
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IDIOMS
- the apple doesn't fall / never falls far from the tree
- the apple of sb's eye
- apples and oranges
—more at American adjective , rotten
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WORD ORIGIN
Old English æppel , of Germanic origin; related to Dutch appel and German Apfel .