" apple "

[Noun]  | "ap*ple" | \ ˈa-pəl \

1: the fleshy, usually rounded red, yellow, or green edible pome fruit of a usually cultivated tree (genus Malus) of the rose family; also : an apple tree

2: a fruit (such as a star apple) or other vegetative growth (such as an oak apple) suggestive of an apple

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English appel, from Old English æppel; akin to Old High German apful apple, Old Irish ubull, Old Church Slavic ablŭko;

[Noun]  | "apple butter" 

1: a thick brown spread made by cooking apples with sugar and spices usually in cider

Origin: circa 1813 ;

[Noun]  | "ap*ple-knock*er" | \ ˈa-pəl-ˌnä-kər \

1: rustic

Origin: 1919 ;

[Noun]  | "apple maggot" 

1: a dipteran fly (Rhagoletis pomonella) whose larva burrows in and feeds especially on apples

Origin: 1866 ;

[Noun]  | "apple scab" 

1: a disease of apple trees caused by a fungus (Venturia inaequalis) producing dark blotches or lesions on the leaves, fruit, and sometimes the young twigs

Origin: 1883 ;

[Noun]  | "Adam's apple" 

1: the projection in the front of the neck formed by the largest cartilage of the larynx

Origin: 1625 ;

 After {see: |adam:1|Adam:1} ;

  * Note : There are analogous names in other European languages, e.g., French pomme d'Adam, morceau d'Adam, Italian pomo d'Adamo, German Adamsapfel, etc. Medieval authors, as Jacques de Vitry, applied pomum Adam(i), Adami pomum, etc., to various kinds of fruits, as the pomegranate, perhaps originally from their supposed superior quality (i.e., "fruits of Paradise"). According to Elmar Seebold (Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprachen, 24. Auflage, 2002), medieval Arab medical authors called the laryngeal protuberance the "pomegranate"—pomum granatum in Latin translation—and the synonymous pomum Adami may have been copied in European vernaculars as a name for the laryngeal protuberance (a case of sense borrowing, and then sense transfer to a synonym). Caspar Bauhin, in his anatomical work De corporis humani fabrica libri quattuor (Basel, 1590), notes that both "pomegranate" and "Adam's apple" are vernacular words for the larynx ("… partem protuberantem, que malum granatum et pomum Adami barbaris dicitur constituit."). Other anatomical authors also have pomum Adami as the Latinization of a vernacular name (André de Laurens, Historia anatomica [Lyons, 1605]: "Huius suprema pars brónkhos, quibusdam vulgo morsus & pomum Adami appellatur"; Gabriele Falloppio, "Institutiones Anatomicae," in Omnia, quae adhuc extant opera [Venice, 1584]: "… quam prominentiam aliqui vulgares appellant, Adami pomum"). This expression has not surprisingly been subject to folk explanations, e.g., John Purcell, in A Treatise of Vapours, or Hysterick Fits (2nd ed., London, 1707), says "… an eminence or protuberance plain to be felt and see:n in the neck, which several anatomists call Pomum Adami or, the Apple of Adam, from a vulgar superstitious notion that when Adam eat the forbidden Apple it stuck in his Throat, and that God to perpetuate the memory of this his offence plac'd the like protuberance in the throats of all his posterity; which is not quite so apparent in Women, because, say they, the Crime of Eve was less …." The notion, which according to Seebold goes back to the 19th century, that pomum Adami is a translation of a putative Medieval Hebrew tappūăḥ ha'ādhām (alleged to mean "protuberance on a man," supposedly reinterpreted as "Adam's apple") is specious. No such expression with this meaning has been located in pre-Modern Hebrew.;

[Adjective]  | "ap*ple-cheeked" | \ ˈa-pəl-ˌchēkt \

1: having cheeks the color of red apples

Origin: 1827 ;

[Adjective]  | "ap*ple-pie" | \ ˈa-pəl-ˈpī \

1: excellent, perfect

2: of, relating to, or characterized by traditionally American values (such as honesty or simplicity)

Origin: 1780 ;

[Verb]  | "ap*ple-pol*ish" | \ ˈa-pəl-ˌpä-lish \

1: to attempt to ingratiate oneself : toady

2: to curry favor with (as by flattery)

Origin: 1926 ;

 From the traditional practice of schoolchildren bringing a shiny apple as a gift to their teacher;

[Geographical name]  | "Apple Valley" 

1: town in southeastern California north of San Bernardino population 69,135

2: city south of St. Paul in southeastern Minnesota population 49,084

[Verb]  | "apple-polish" 

[Verb]  | "apple-polished" 

[Verb]  | "apple-polishes" 

[Verb]  | "apple-polishing" 

[Verb]  | "upset" 

[Noun]  | "apple-polisher" 

[Noun]  | "apple-polishers"