APPLE

noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English appel, from Old English æppel; akin to Old High German apful ~, Old Irish ubull, Old Church Slavic ablŭko Date: before 12th century the fleshy usually rounded red, yellow, or green edible pome fruit of a usually cultivated tree (genus Malus ) of the rose family, a fruit (as a star ~) or other vegetative growth (as an oak ~) suggestive of an ~