apple | (noun) fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh | - |
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(noun) native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits | Synonyms: Malus pumila, orchard apple tree |
bakeapple | (noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: baked-apple berry, cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus, salmonberry |
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crabapple | (noun) small sour apple; suitable for preserving | Synonyms: crab apple |
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(noun) any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit | Synonyms: crab apple, wild apple |
(noun) 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 | Synonyms: crab apple, cultivated crab apple |
cripple | (noun) someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back | - |
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dapple | (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: fleck, maculation, patch, speckle, spot |
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fipple | (noun) a wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder) | - |
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grapple | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle, wrestling |
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(noun) a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope | Synonyms: grapnel, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron |
(noun) a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam | Synonyms: clamshell |
mayapple | (noun) North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit | Synonyms: May apple, Podophyllum peltatum, wild mandrake |
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nipple | (noun) a flexible cap on a baby's feeding bottle or pacifier | - |
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(noun) the small projection of a mammary gland | Synonyms: mamilla, mammilla, pap, teat, tit |
pineapple | (noun) large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated | Synonyms: ananas |
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(noun) a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics | Synonyms: Ananas comosus, pineapple plant |
ripple | (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: riffle, rippling, wavelet |
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(noun) (electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value | - |
scrapple | (noun) scraps of meat (usually pork) boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying | - |
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stopple | (noun) blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly | Synonyms: plug, stopper |
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tipple | (noun) a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg | Synonyms: draft, draught, potation |
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