love apple

Questions about love apple

What does love apple mean?

love apple means "native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties".

What is another word for love apple?

Close synonyms include tomato, tomato plant, Lycopersicon esculentum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is love apple a common word?

love apple is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.