apple maggot railroad worm Rhagoletis pomonella | larvae bore into and feed on apples |
apple aphid green apple aphid Aphis pomi | bright green aphid, feeds on and causes curling of apple leaves |
woolly apple aphid American blight Eriosoma lanigerum | primarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other trees |
apple of discord | (classical mythology) a golden apple thrown into a banquet of the gods by Eris (goddess of discord--who had not been invited), the apple had `for the fairest' written on it and Hera and Athena and Aphrodite all claimed it, when Paris (prince of Troy) awarded it to Aphrodite it began a chain of events that led to the Trojan War |
apple orchard | a grove of apple trees |
thyroid cartilage Adam's apple | the largest cartilage of the larynx |
candied apple candy apple taffy apple caramel apple toffee apple | an apple that is covered with a candy-like substance (usually caramelized sugar) |
apple dumpling | apples wrapped in pastry and baked |
apple tart | a tart filled with sliced apples and sugar |
apple tart | a small open pie filled with sliced apples and sugar |
apple turnover | turnover with an apple filling |
apple pie | pie (with a top crust) containing sliced apples and sugar |
apple fritter | fritter containing sliced apple |
apple butter | thick dark spicy puree of apples |
apple jelly | jelly made from apple juice |
eggplant aubergine mad apple | egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow |
apple | fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh |
crab apple crabapple | small sour apple, suitable for preserving, crabapples make a tangy jelly |
eating apple dessert apple | an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking |
cooking apple | an apple used primarily in cooking for pies and applesauce etc |
bell apple sweet cup water lemon yellow granadilla | the edible yellow fruit of the Jamaica honeysuckle |
custard apple | the fruit of any of several tropical American trees of the genus Annona having soft edible pulp |
bullock's heart Jamaica apple | large heart-shaped tropical fruit with soft acid pulp |
sweetsop annon sugar apple | sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds |
pond apple | ovoid yellow fruit with very fragrant peacholored flesh, related to custard apples |
kai apple | South African fruit smelling and tasting like apricots, used for pickles and preserves |
mamey mammee mammee apple | globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh |
Barbados gooseberry blade apple | small yellow to orange fruit of the Barbados gooseberry cactus used in desserts and preserves and jellies |
rose apple | fragrant oval yellowish tropical fruit used in jellies and confections |
sorb sorb apple | acid gritty-textured fruit |
applesauce apple sauce | puree of stewed apples usually sweetened and spiced |
apple juice | the juice of apples |
apple polisher bootlicker fawner groveller groveler truckler | someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect, who behaves as if he had no selfespect |
Annonaceae family Annonaceae custard-apple family | chiefly tropical trees or shrubs |
custard apple custard apple tree | any of several tropical American trees bearing fruit with soft edible pulp |
soursop prickly custard apple soursop tree Annona muricata | small tropical American tree bearing large succulent slightly acid fruit |
pond apple pond-apple tree Annona glabra | small evergreen tree of tropical America with edible fruit, used chiefly as grafting stock |
mayapple May apple wild mandrake Podophyllum peltatum | North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit |
May apple | edible but insipid fruit of the May apple plant |
crape jasmine crepe jasmine crepe gardenia pinwheel flower East Indian rosebay Adam's apple Nero's crown coffee rose Tabernaemontana divaricate | tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas, northern India to Thailand |
balsam apple Momordica balsamina | a tropical Old World flowering vine with red or orange warty fruit |
rose apple rose-apple tree jambosa Eugenia jambos | tropical tree of the East Indies cultivated for its edible fruit |
pitch apple strangler fig Clusia rosea Clusia major | a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers |
mammee apple mammee mamey mammee tree Mammea americana | tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind |
kei apple kei apple bush Dovyalis caffra | vigorous South African spiny shrub grown for its round yellow juicy edible fruits |
ivory nut vegetable ivory apple nut | nutlike seed of a South American palm, the hard white shell takes a high polish and is used for e.g. buttons |
apple tree | any tree of the genus Malus especially those bearing firm rounded edible fruits |
apple orchard apple tree Malus pumila | native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits |
wild apple crab apple crabapple | any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit |
crab apple crabapple cultivated crab apple | any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acidic (usually bright red) fruit used for preserves or as ornamentals for their blossoms |