Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A tree (Pyrus Malus) bearing apples. Its wood is hard, durable, and fine-grained, and much used in turnery. Apple-trees are propagated by seeds, layers, grafting, and budding.
Examples
“But my father once told me the story of an apple-tree that was so laden with apples that its branches could not sing in the wind.”
“‘My fruits are my best advertisement,’ answered the apple-tree.”
“There was an apple-tree beside the house, and some apples had fallen to the ground.”
“The apple-dryads drew back a little, regarding Kellen and Shalkan gravely out of dark eyes the color of apple-tree bark.”
“May 28, 1793 – My weeding-woman swept up on the grass-plot a bushel-basket of blossoms from the white apple-tree: & yet that tree seems still covered with bloom.”
“He still had the branch of apple-tree in his hand.”
“In one of his preceding lounges he had noticed there an old garden haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable apple-tree.”
“Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he recognized the apple-tree, he verified the fruit-house, he examined the hedge; a hedge means merely one stride.”
“Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was not securely fastened, and where one might contrive to get an apple.”
“I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, the symbol of air, the olive, that ninny, the symbol of peace, the apple-tree which came nearest rangling Adam with its pips, and the fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘apple-tree’.
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iRosaceae
An ode to apples. I am much indebted to 'Wild Apples' which, though probably not likely to change your life and improve your productivity at the sausage factory, will enthrall you with half an hou...
rosaceae, apple, maelon, crab, jonathon, eden, temptation, clan lamont, eye, sward, pomona, granny smith and 135 more...
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adieu, air, arwen, ash, aurora, acoustic, azure, aromatic, autumn, agleam, antique, albino and 19 more...
Tweets
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gangerh don't fly over the cuckoo's nest with anyone else but me Apr 7, 2009
reesetee Don't sit under that with anyone else but me. Apr 7, 2009
bilby *chews apples* Apr 7, 2009
chained_bear Uhh... is someone trying to say the ancient Greeks never had war? Or just that they sucked at it? Dec 14, 2007
bilby "Niebuhr observes that 'the words for a house, a field, a plough, ploughing, wine, oil, milk, sheep, apples, and others relating to agriculture and the gentler ways of life, agree in Latin and Greek, while the Latin words for all objects pertaining to war or the chase are utterly alien from the Greek.' Thus the apple-tree may be considered a symbol of peace no less than the olive." - 'Wild Apples', Henry David Thoreau. Dec 14, 2007
bilby "The vine is dried up, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men." - 'The Bible', (multiple) authors unknown. Dec 14, 2007