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say it: AP-uhl
apple is a noun meaning "fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh". It is pronounced /ˈæpəl/ — AP-uhl. It carries 2 recorded senses.
fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for apple come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.