vi to grow like an apple; to bear apples.
2. apple ·noun anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.
3. apple ·noun any tree genus pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.
4. apple ·noun the fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.
5. apple ·noun any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.