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单词 apple
释义 apple
 /ap"euhl/,  n.  
  1. the usually round, red or yellow, edible fruit of a small tree, Malus sylvestris, of the rose family.
  2. the tree, cultivated in most temperate regions.
  3. the fruit of any of certain other species of tree of the same genus.
  4. any of these trees.
  5. any of various other similar fruits, or fruitlike products or plants, as the custard apple, love apple, May apple, or oak apple.
  6. anything resembling an apple in size and shape, as a ball, esp. a baseball.
  7.  Bowling.   an ineffectively bowled ball.
  8.  Slang.   a red capsule containing a barbiturate, esp. secobarbital.
 [bef. 900; ME appel, OE aeppel; c. OFris, D appel, OS apl, appul, OHG apful (G Apfel), Crimean Goth apel < Gmc *aplu (akin to ON epli < *apljan); OIr ubull (neut.), Welsh afal, Breton aval < pre-Celtic *oblu; Lith óbuolas, -ys, Latvian âbuol(i)s (with reshaped suffix),
 OPruss woble, perh. Thracian (din)upla, (sin)upyla wild pumpkin, OCS (j)abluko (repr. *ablu-ko, neut.) < Balto-Slavic *ablu-. Cf. AVALON]
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