APPLE

Definitions

1. 1. The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.
2. 2. Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.
3. 3. Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.
4. 4. Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.