Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun apple
2 senses of apple
Sense 1
apple -- (fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh)
=> edible fruit -- (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)
=> pome, false fruit -- (a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part)
Sense 2
apple, orchard apple tree, Malus pumila -- (native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits)
=> apple tree -- (any tree of the genus Malus especially those bearing firm rounded edible fruits)