{"word":"apple","etymologies":[{"description":["From Middle English appel, from Old English æppel (“apple, fruit in general, ball”), from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz (“apple”) (compare Scots aipple, West Frisian apel, Dutch appel, German Apfel, Swedish äpple, Danish æble), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl, *h₂ébl̥ (“apple”) (compare Welsh afal, Irish úll, Lithuanian óbuolỹs, Russian я́блоко (jábloko), possibly Ancient Greek ἄμπελος (ámpelos, “vine”))."],"adjectives":[],"adverbs":[],"nouns":[{"description":"apple (plural apples)","definitionGroups":[{"group":null,"entries":[{"meaning":"A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates. [from 9th c.]","examples":["I prayed pieres to pulle adown an apple."]}]},{"group":null,"entries":[{"meaning":"Any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing produced by a plant such as a gall or cone, especially if produced by a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of specific fruits such as custard apple, rose apple, thorn apple etc. [from 9th c.]","examples":["Venemous apples wherwith they poyson theyr arrows."]}]},{"group":"Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica, such as a globe, ball, or breast.","entries":[{"meaning":"(baseball, slang, obsolete) The ball in baseball. [from 20th c.]","examples":[]},{"meaning":"(informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.","examples":[]},{"meaning":"The Adam's apple.","examples":["The sweat of fear and exertion was streaming down his face and chest, and his breath came in short, tearing, hard-drawn gasps and gulps, while the apple in his throat leaped up and down ceaselessly  […]"]}]},{"group":null,"entries":[{"meaning":"(Christianity) The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit. [from 11th c.]","examples":["Sharon you've got a husband","And a family and a farm","I've got the apple of temptation","And a diamond snake around my arm"]}]},{"group":null,"entries":[{"meaning":"A tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree. [from 15th c.]","examples":["This allows a weak plant to benefit from the strong roots of another, or a vigorous tree (such as an apple) to be kept small by growing on 'dwarfing rootstock'."]}]},{"group":null,"entries":[{"meaning":"The wood of the apple tree. [from 19th c.]","examples":[]}]},{"group":null,"entries":[{"meaning":"(in the plural, Cockney rhyming slang) Short for apples and pears, slang for stairs. [from 20th c.]","examples":[]}]},{"group":null,"entries":[{"meaning":"(derogatory, ethnic slur) A Native American or red-skinned person who acts and/or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.","examples":[]}]},{"group":null,"entries":[{"meaning":"(ice hockey, slang) An assist.","examples":[]}]},{"group":null,"entries":[{"meaning":"(slang) A CB radio enthusiast.","examples":["Because of overcrowding, many a CB enthusiast (called an \"apple\") is strapping an illegal linear amplifier (\"boots\") on to his transceiver (\"ears\")  […]"]}]}]}],"prepositions":[],"verbs":[{"description":"apple (third-person singular simple present apples, present participle appling, simple past and past participle appled)","definitionGroups":[{"group":null,"entries":[{"meaning":"(transitive, intransitive) To make or become apple-like.","examples":[]}]},{"group":null,"entries":[{"meaning":"(obsolete) To form buds, bulbs, or fruit.","examples":["Either they floure, or they apple or els be ready to bring forth fruit."]}]}]}],"letter":[],"number":[]}]}