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
apple butter noun Date: circa 1774 a thick brown spread made by cooking apples with sugar and spices usually in cider
apple maggot noun Date: 1867 a dipteran fly ( Rhagoletis pomonella ) whose larva burrows in and feeds especially on apples
apple of one's eye phrasal one that is highly cherished
apple scab noun Date: circa 1899 a disease of apple trees caused by a fungus ( Venturia inaequalis ) producing dark blotches or lesions on the leaves, fruit, and sometimes the young twigs
apple valley geographical name town SE California N of San Bernardino population 54,239, city SE Minnesota population 45,527
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