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apple is a common noun.  Its two syllables, ap ple, are pronounced AP ul.  There are 4 definitions. apple picture

Definition 1 is:  The widely distributed fleshy edible fruit or pome of any variety of a tree (Malus malus) of the family Pomaceæ, usually of a roundish or conical shape with a depression at each end; also, the similar fruit of several allied species of Malus, as Malus prunifolia and Malus baccata, the Siberian crab-apple, and Malus coronaria, the American crab-apple.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary

This link will be to the French:  pomme.  This link will be to the German:  apfel.  This link is to the Spanish:  manzana.

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Associations with apple, Definition 1, are:

distribute is a verb.  Definition 3 of 4 is:  To scatter or spread out in an even or orderly way; administer.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary

pome is a noun.  Definition 1 of 1 is:  A fleshy, many-celled fruit with a core, as an apple, quince pear, et cetera.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary

conic is an adjective.  Definition 1 of 2 is:  Cone-shaped; conical.  Definition 2 is:  Relating to or formed by or upon a cone.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary

Anatomy - exterior:  A fruit is a fully developed and ripened ovary.

pedicel is a noun.  Definition 1 part 1 of 2 in Botany is:  An ultimate peduncle; the stalk supporting a single flower in an inflorescence composed of flowers arranged upon a common peduncle.  Definition 1 part 2 in Zoology is: A stalk or supporting part; a pedicle; peduncle.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary
 
The stem of the apple, formed from the flower stalk.  (Editor's note:  Eventually there should be a time-lapse here of a blossom becoming an apple.)  
 
peduncle is a noun.  Definition 1 of 2 in botany is:  The general stalk or support of an inflorescence.  Definition 2 in both Anatomy and Zoology is: A stalk or stem, as for the attachment of an organ or organism; as, the peduncle of an apple.  Source:  a modification from the  Practical Standard Dictionary
 
inflorescence is a noun.  In Botany, Definition 1 of 4 is:  The act of flowering; the expanding of blossoms.  Definition 2 is:  The mode of disposition of flowers.  Definition 3 is:  Flowers collectively; said of certain plants or of a tree or a group of trees; as, the inflorescence of the apple tree.  Definition 4 is:  An axis along which all the buds are flower-buds.  There are two principal types:
Type 1 is the definite (centrifugal, cymose, descending, determinate).
Type 2 is the indefinite (ascending, botryose, centripetal, indeterminate).  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary

Anatomy - interior:


exocarp is a noun.  In Botany, the only definition is:  The outer wall of a pericarp, when it is possible to distinguish more than one.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary
pericarp is a noun.  The only definition is:  The wall of the ripened ovary of a flower, constituting the germ of the fruit.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary
mesocarp is a noun.  In Botany, the only definition is:  The middle layer of a pericarp.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary
vascular strand is a noun.  (Definition pending.)
endocarp is a noun.  In Botany, the only definition is:  The inner layer of a pericarp.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary
seed as a noun.  The only definition is:  The ovule from which a plant may be reproduced.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary
hilum is a noun.  Definition 1 of 2, in Botany, part 1 is:  The scar on a seed indicating its point of attachment.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary
testa is a noun.  The only definition, in Botany, is:  The outer, usually hard and brittle, coat or integument of a seed: called primine in the ovule.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary
cotyledon is a noun.  The only definition is:  A seed-leaf, or first leaf of an embryo.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary
embryo as a noun.  The only definition, part 3, in Botany, is:  The rudimentary plant within the seed, which makes its appearance soon after fertilization of the ovule by the pollen and then passes through a period of rest until the germination or sprouting of the seed.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary

pomace is a noun.  Definition 1 of 3 is: The substance of apples or like fruit crushed by grinding.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary

pomaceous¹ is an adjective.  Definition 1 of 2 is:  Relating to or made of apples.  Definition 2 in Botany is:  Of or pertaining to a pome, or to trees of the rose family that produce pomes.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary

pomaceous² is an adjective.  Definition 1 of 1 is:  Of, pertaining to, or like pomace.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary

Malus is a noun. The only definition, in Botany is:  A genus of trees or shrubs, of the North and South Temperate Zones, the apples, typifying the family Malaceae.  Malus Silvestris is the common apple.  Source:  Webster's New International Dictionary

cider varieties, cooking varieties, dessert varieties

Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman), who planted extensively in Ohio and Indiana.

SOME APPLE VARIETIES (of which there are thousands):

20 ounce, Acey Mac, Akane gold Delicious, Ashmead Kernel, August Sweet, Baldwin*, Ben Davis, Big Time, Blue Pearmain, Blushing Golden, Braeburn, Cameo, Cepiland, Cortland, Cox Orange Pippin, Crispin, Delicious, Earligold, Early McIntosh, Early Red Bird, Elstar, Empire, Esopus Spitzenburg, Fameuse(Snow), Firm gold Delicious, Fortune, Fugi, Gala, Galaxy, GB 63-43, Ginger Gold, Gold, Golden Delicious, Golden Russet, Golden Supreme, Granite Beauty, Granny, Granny Smith, Gravenstein, Grimes Golden, Golden Russet*, Golden Supreme*, Hampshire, Honeycrisp, Hubbardston Nonesuch, Idared, Imperial Gala, Jersey Mac, Jonagold, Jonagored, Jonamac, Jonathon, Kearsarge, King, Lady*, Lancep, Liberty*, Lodi*, Macoun, Mantet, McIntosh, Merlyn, Milton, Monroe*, Mutsu, Newtown Pippin*, NH#8, Nodhead, Northern Spy, Northwest Greening, Nured, Oldenburg, Ozark Gold, Paula Red, Pink Ladies, Pink Rose, Pippin, Pomme Grise, Porter, Pound Sweet*, Primate, Rafzubin, Red, Red Astrachan, Red Atraschan(spelling?), Redcort, Red Delicious, Red Elstar, Redgold, Red Gravenstein, Red Max, Red Northern Spy, Red Rome, Rhode Island Greening*, Ribston Pippin, Rome, Rome Beauty, Roxbury Russet, Royal Gala, RubyFrost®, SA244-20, SA251-18, SA252-107, SA256-24, Sheepnose, SnapDragon®, Snow, Spartan/Spartamac, Spigold*, Stayman/Winesap*, Summer Red, Summertime Lady, Sun Lady, Swiss Gourmet, Twenty Ounce, Tydeman, Vista Bella, Wagener, Washington, Wealthy, Wealthy Winesap, Williams, Winesap, Winter Banana, Wolf River, Yellow Newton Pippin, Yellow Newtown, Yellow Transparent*, York, York Imperial, Zestari®.

* These can only be found at farm markets and roadside stands, not in grocery stores.

SOME APPLE LINKS: New York Apple Country,

SOME  PAPER-BASED APPLE REFERENCES:  Encyclopædia Britannica, Dorling Kindersley Ultimate Visual Dictionary.


Definition 2 is:  A tree of any one of the species bearing apples as its natural fruit.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary

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Malus is a noun.  The only definition, in Botany is:  A genus of trees or shrubs, of the North and South Temperate Zones, the apples, typifying the family Malaceae.  Malus Silvestris is the common apple.  Source:  Webster's New International Dictionary


Definition 3 is:  One of several fruits or plants with little or no resemblance to the apple; as, May-apple, alligator-apple, love-apple, egg-apple, oak-apple, et cetera.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary

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may apple or mayapple is a noun.  Definition 1 of 2, in Botany is:  The ovid oblong yellowish fruit of the mandrake.  Definition 2, in Botany is: The plant itself.  Source: Practical Standard Dictionary

alligator apple is a noun.  The pond apple.  Source:  Webster's New International Dictionary

love apple is a noun.  The tomato.  Source:  Practical Standard Dictionary

egg apple.  The eggplant.  Source:  Webster's New International Dictionary

oak apple.  A gall produced on an oak; a gall-fly.  Source:  Practical Standard Dictionary


Definition 4 is:  Biblical [Hebrew tappuach.]   The apple proper; also, a citron, apricot, pear, quince, or other fruit.  Canticles ii, 5.  Source:  Practical Standard Dictionary

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The singular possessive of apple is:  apple's.  The plural of apple is:  apples.  The plural possessive of apples is:  apples'.

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