apples
/ˈæ.pl̩z/ · noun
Meaning
- A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates.
- Any of various tree-borne fruits or vegetables especially considered as resembling an apple; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of other specific fruits such as custard apple, rose apple, thorn apple etc.
- The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.
- A tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
- The wood of the apple tree.
- (in the plural) Short for apples and pears, slang for stairs.
- To become apple-like.
- To form buds.
- (Australian rhyming slang) Nice, fine.
- Testicles.
- Stairs
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