apples Definition

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

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

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

to compare things that are very similar

to compare things that are very different

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

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

any of several chiefly tropical American soft-fleshed edible fruits

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)

pawpaw

tomato

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

a tropical American tree (Chrysophyllum cainito) of the sapodilla family grown in warm regions for ornament or fruit; also : its usually green to purple apple-shaped edible fruit that when cut in cross-section reveals a star-shaped pattern formed by the carpels