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apples

1) N-VAR An apple is a round fruit with smooth green, yellow, or red skin and firm white flesh.

→ See also , Big Apple, crab apple

I want an apple.

...2kg cooking apples.

...his ongoing search for the finest varieties of apple.

...a large garden with apple trees in it.

2) PHRASE: usu v-link PHR If you say that someone is the apple of your eye, you mean that they are very important to you and you are extremely fond of them.

Penny's only son was the apple of her eye.