" apples "

[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]  | "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.;

[Noun]  | "bad apple" 

1: someone who creates problems or causes trouble for others; often, specifically : a member of a group whose behavior reflects poorly on or negatively affects or influences the remainder of the group

Origin: 1938 ;

[Noun]  | "crab apple" 

1: any of various wild or cultivated trees (genus Malus) that are cultivars or relatives of the cultivated apple and that produce small sour fruit; also : the fruit

Origin: 1680 ;

 {see: |crab:3|crab:3};

[Noun]  | "custard apple" 

1: any of several chiefly tropical American soft-fleshed edible fruits

2: any of a genus (Annona of the family Annonaceae, the custard-apple family) of trees or shrubs bearing this fruit; especially : a small West Indian tree (A. reticulata)

3: pawpaw

Origin: 1648 ;

[Noun]  | "love apple" 

1: tomato

Origin: 1785 ;

 Probably translation of French pomme d'amour;

[Noun]  | "oak apple" 

1: a large round gall produced on oak leaves and twigs by a gall wasp (especially Amphibolips confluenta)

Origin: 15th century ;

[Idiom]  | "bob for apples" 

1: to play a children's game in which one tries to grab floating or hanging apples with one's teeth

[Idiom]  | "compare apples and/to/with apples" 

1: to compare things that are very similar

[Idiom]  | "compare apples and/to/with oranges" 

1: to compare things that are very different