Apple-bearing

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Bearing, producing, or capable of producing apples

    "It would not be very flattering to the teaching profession if I were to enumerate to you how many times I was punished in order to be compelled to say, right or wrong, that an apple tree was an apple-bearing tree."

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pomiferous

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"It would not be very flattering to the teaching profession if I were to enumerate to you how many times I was punished in order to be compelled to say, right or wrong, that an apple tree was an apple-bearing tree."

Etymology

From apple + bearing. Compare Old English æppelbǣre (literally “apple-bearing”).

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