apple is a common noun. Its two syllables, ap ple, are pronounced AP ul. There are 4 definitions.
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
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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.
Anatomy - interior:
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
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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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