Main Entry: ap·ple

Pronunciation: \ˈa-pəl\

Function: noun

Usage: often attributive

Etymology: Middle English appel, from Old English æppel; akin to Old High German apful apple, Old Irish ubull, Old Church Slavic ablŭko

Date: before 12th century

1 : the fleshy usually rounded red, yellow, or green edible pome fruit of a usually cultivated tree (genus Malus) of the rose family; also : an apple tree — compare crab apple
2 : a fruit (as a star apple) or other vegetative growth (as an oak apple) suggestive of an apple

— apple of one's eye : one that is highly cherished <his daughter is the apple of his eye>