apple tree

Noun

Meaning

any tree of the genus Malus especially those bearing firm rounded edible fruits

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

apple-tree

Synonyms

apple apple tree appal apples crabapple tree like daughter like son apple groves apple orchards apple blossoms

Hypernyms

plant fruit tree

Hyponyms

apple crabapple crab apple cultivated crab apple Malus pumila orchard apple tree

Examples

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. Martin Luther

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion the horse, how he shall take his prey. William Blake

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. Henry David Thoreau

I would take to be quite a fool any man who would make a book full of laws and statutes for an apple tree telling it how to bear apples and not thorns, when the tree is able by its own nature to do this better than the man with all his books can describe and demand. Martin Luther

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. Martin Luther King Jr.

No apple tree is immune from worms. Russian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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