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The most troublesome disease of the apple is the apple-scab, which disfigures the fruit as well as lessens its size.

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  1. noun A deciduous Eurasian tree (Malus pumila) having alternate simple leaves and white or pink flowers.
  2. noun The firm, edible, usually rounded fruit of this tree.
  3. noun Any of several other plants, especially those with fruits suggestive of the apple, such as the crab apple or custard apple.
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  • As an old English manuscript says, "The mo appelen the tree bereth, the more sche boweth to the folk." Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
  • A rose when it blooms, the apple is a rose when it ripens. —  Winter Sunshine
  • The values of zero for green and blue waves demonstrate that the apple is absorbing those waves and not passing them through the machine to the detector. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • In this respect, the "badness" of the apple is a secondary property of the apple. —  Larval Subjects .
  • In this I cooked some apples, quartered, and stewed till soft, and just as an experiment added a saucerful of strawberries. —  The Suffrage Cook Book
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  1. Middle English appel, from Old English æppel.

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  1. from Middle English apple, aple, epple, appel, eppel, appil, -ul, -yl, from Anglo-Saxon æppel, in comp. æppel-, æpel-, appel-, in inflection æppl-, æpl-, appl-, apl-, once eapl-,= OFries. appel (in comp.), NFries. aple, aeplc, northern Friesic apel,= Dutch appel= Old High German aphal, aphol, aphul, affal, affol, afful, apful, plural epfili, Middle High German apfel, plural epfel, öpfel, German apfel, plural äpfel,= Icelandic epli= Norwegian dial. eple= Old Swedish œpl, Swedish äple, äpple (in comp. äppel-)= Danish œble (Gothic (Moesogothic) not recorded), apple; used also, in connection with eye (in G. also absolutely), for the pupil of the eye; in Anglo-Saxon also poetical for ball (īrenum aplum, with iron balls); in southern Norway also absolutely for jordeple= earth-apple, potato: a common Teutonic word, found also in Celtic (Irish abhal, ubhal= Gaelic ubhall= Welsh afal, OW. abal= Cornish Breton aval= Manx ooyl) and in Slavic (Old Bulgarian ablŭko, yablŭko, Bulgarian ablŭka, yablŭka= Sloven. yabelko, yabolka= Servian yabuka= Bohemian jablo, jablko= Polish jablko (barred l)= Russian yabloko= White Russian yabko), and further in Old Prussian woble= Lithuanian obulas= Lettish ābols, apple; but in all these languages regarded as of foreign origin. The common source of all the forms has been sought in L. Abella (Italian Avella), a town in Campania abounding in fruit-trees and nuts (and hence called malifera, apple-bearing, by Virgil), whence nux Abellana, a filbert or hazel-nut (see avellane), and, it is supposed, *malum Abellanum, the apple in particular; cf. Latin malum Persicum, the Persian apple, the peach (whence English peach, q. v.). In this view apple, like pear, peach, plum, quinee, apricot, cherry, is of L. (all but apple and pear being ult. of Greek) origin.
  2. from Anglo-Saxon *æpplian, used only in past participle æppled, appled, formed like an apple; from æppel, an apple: see the noun.
 

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