apple is a noun.  Its two syllables, ap ple, are pronounced ap'l.  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.

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

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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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).

Anatomy - interior:

exocarp is a noun.  In Botany, Definition 1 of 1 is:  The outer wall of a pericarp, when it is possible to distinguish more than one.

pericarp is a noun.  Definition 1 of 1 is:  The wall of the ripened ovary of a flower, constituting the germ of the fruit.

mesocarp is a noun.  In Botany, Definition 1 of 1 is:  The middle layer of a pericarp.

vascular strand is a noun.  (Definition unavailable in the authorized source.)

endocarp is a noun.  In Botany, Definition 1 of 1 is:  The inner layer of a pericarp.

seed as a noun.  Definition 1 of 1 is:  The ovule from which a plant may be reproduced.

hilum is a noun.  Definition 1 of 2, in Botany, part 1 is:  The scar on a seed indicating its point of attachment.

testa is a noun.  Definition 1 of 1, in Botany, is:  The outer, usually hard and brittle, coat or integument of a seed: called primine in the ovule.

cotyledon is a noun.  Definition 1 of 1 is:  A seed-leaf, or first leaf of an embryo.

embryo as a noun.  Definition 1 of 1, 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.

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

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.

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

Malus is a noun.  It is pronounced Ma'lus.  Definition 1 of 1 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.

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):

Baldwin, Ben Davis, Braeburn, Cortland, Crispin, Delicious, Empire, Fortune, Fugi, Gala, Ginger Gold, Gold, Golden Russet, Golden Supreme, Granny, Gravenstein, Grimes Golden, Honeycrisp, Jerseymac, Jonathon, Jonamac, Lady, Liberty, Lodi, McIntosh, Monroe, Newtown Pippin, Northern Spy, Oldenburg, Paula Red, Pink Ladies, Pippin, Pound Sweet, Red, Red Atraschan, R.I. Greening, Rome, Rome Beauty, Spartan/Spartamac, Spigold, Stayman Winesap, Twenty Ounce, Tydeman, Washington, Wealthy Winesap, Winesap, Yellow Newtown, Yellow Transparent, York Imperial.

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.

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Malus is a noun.  It is pronounced Ma'lus.  Definition 1 of 1 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.

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.

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Associations with apple, Definition 3, are:

may apple or mayapple. The yellow, egg-shaped fruit of a North American herb, Podophyllum peltatum.

alligator apple.  The pond apple.

love apple.  The tomato.

egg apple.  The eggplant.

oak apple.  A gall produced on an oak; a gall-fly.

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Associations with apple, Definition 4, are:

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

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Last update of this page:

2000 APR 03  Syllables and text pronunciation added.

2000 JAN 06  Pronunciation of "apple" added.

1999 JUL 20