apple-tree

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See also: appletree and apple tree

English

Noun

apple-tree (plural apple-trees)

  1. Rare form of apple tree.
    • 1838, Parley's Magazine (American periodical series: 1800-1850)‎, volume 6, C.S. Francis & Company, →OCLC, THE APPLE-TREE, page 290:
      And I'll sing a song as rare
      Of the apple-tree!
      The red-bloomed apple-tree;
      The red-cheeked apple-tree;
    • 2008, Liberty Hyde Bailey, The Apple-Tree: the Open Country (Library of Alexandria)‎, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN, →OCLC:
      Many years ago, my old friend, the late Dr. J. A. Lintner, State Entomologist of New York, compiled a list of 356 insects that feed on the apple-tree. Later authorities place the number at nearly five hundred species.

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