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Substantiivi

1. A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
2. The fruit of the tree Malus domestica, chiefly with a green, red, or yellow skin, cultivated in temperate climates for cidermaking, cooking, and eating.
3. Often with a qualifying word: any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing (such as a cone or gall) produced by a plant, especially if from a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica .
4. Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica in shape (such as a ball, breast, or globe) or colour.
5. Ellipsis of Adam's apple (“the lump in the throat, usually more noticeable in men than in women; the laryngeal prominence”).
6. Ellipsis of apple-green (“a bright green colour with a light tint of yellow, like that of a Granny Smith apple”).
7. (historical) Ellipsis of apple of the eye (“the pupil, or pupil and iris, of the eye, originally believed to be spherical; also, the eyeball”).
8. (informal) The round, fleshy part of a cheek between the eye and the corner of the mouth when a person is smiling.
9. (geometry) The surface of revolution of a circular arc of an angle greater than 180° rotated about the straight line passing through the arc's two endpoints.
10. (smoking) In full apple bowl: a round bowl of a tobacco pipe; also, a tobacco pipe with such a bowl.
11. (obsolete, baseball, slang) In full old apple: a baseball.
12. (Christianity) According to postbiblical Christian tradition, the fruit of the tree of knowledge which was eaten by Adam and Eve despite God commanding them not to do so; the forbidden fruit.
13. (obsolete, botany) Synonym of pome (“a type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels”).
14. A tree of the genus Malus; especially Malus domestica which is cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
15. Synonym of applewood (“the wood of the apple tree”).
16. (often with qualifying word) A person.
17. (amateur radio) Synonym of CBer (“a CB radio enthusiast”).
18. (ice hockey) An assist.
19. (US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Native American or redskinned person who acts or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.

Verbi

1. (transitive) To make (something) appear like an apple (noun ).
2. To become like an apple.
3. (UK, dialectal, rare) To collect fir-cones.
4. (obsolete, except, UK, dialectal) Of a flower bud or vegetable (especially a root vegetable): to grow into the shape of an apple.