APPLE TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apple tree mean? 

• APPLE TREE (noun)
  The noun APPLE TREE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: APPLE TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPLE TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("apple tree" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (substance of "apple tree"):

applewood (wood of any of various apple trees of the genus Malus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apple tree"):

apple; Malus pumila; orchard apple tree (native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits)

crab apple; crabapple; wild apple (any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit)

crab apple; crabapple; cultivated crab apple (any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acidic (usually bright red) fruit used for preserves or as ornamentals for their blossoms)

Holonyms ("apple tree" is a member of...):

genus Malus; Malus (apple trees; found throughout temperate zones of the northern hemisphere)

 Context examples 

A team of researchers, led by Kim McConkey from the University of Nottingham, set out to study one particular tree, the Platymitra macrocarpa from the family of custard apple trees.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

Oh! What a sweet little cottage there is among the trees—apple trees, too!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Jo spent the morning on the river with Laurie and the afternoon reading and crying over The Wide, Wide World, up in the apple tree.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He strayed down a walk edged with box, with apple trees, pear trees, and cherry trees on one side, and a border on the other full of all sorts of old-fashioned flowers, stocks, sweet-williams, primroses, pansies, mingled with southernwood, sweet-briar, and various fragrant herbs.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I remember, before the dwarf left the queen, he followed us one day into those gardens, and my nurse having set me down, he and I being close together, near some dwarf apple trees, I must needs show my wit, by a silly allusion between him and the trees, which happens to hold in their language as it does in ours.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Out in our garden is an apple tree that has a nice low branch, so Jo put the saddle on it, fixed some reins on the part that turns up, and we bounce away on Ellen Tree whenever we like.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"No," said Jo, "that dozy way wouldn't suit me. I've laid in a heap of books, and I'm going to improve my shining hours reading on my perch in the old apple tree, when I'm not having l—"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)