APPLE: значение слова

noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English appel, from Old English æppel; akin to Old High German apful apple, 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 apple) or other vegetative growth (as an oak apple) suggestive of an apple