apple-bearing
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From apple + bearing. Compare Old English æppelbǣre (literally “apple-bearing”).
Adjective[edit]
apple-bearing (comparative more apple-bearing, superlative most apple-bearing)
- Bearing, producing, or capable of producing apples
- 2001, Modern Greek Studies Yearbook:
- 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.
- 2001, Modern Greek Studies Yearbook:
Synonyms[edit]
- pomiferous (less common)