1. adams(n = noun.person) sam adams, samuel adams - American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1722-1803);
is a kind of american revolutionary leader
2. adams(n = noun.person) john quincy adams, president adams, president john quincy adams - 6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848);
is a kind of chief executive, president, president of the united states, united states president
3. adams(n = noun.person) john adams, president adams, president john adams - 2nd President of the United States (1735-1826);
is a kind of chief executive, president, president of the united states, united states president
4. adams(n = noun.object) mount adams - a mountain peak in southwestern Washington in the Cascade Range (12,307 feet high);
is a kind of mountain peak
is a part of evergreen state, wa, washington, cascade mountains, cascade range, cascades
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1. apple(n = noun.food) - fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh;
is a kind of edible fruit, false fruit, pome
is a part of apple, malus pumila, orchard apple tree
has particulars: crab apple, crabapple, dessert apple, eating apple, cooking apple
2. apple(n = noun.plant) malus pumila, orchard apple tree - native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits;
is a kind of apple tree
has parts: apple
is a member of genus malus, malus
1. The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (
" The European crab apple is supposed to be the original kind, from which all others have sprung." [1913 Webster]
2. Any tree genus
3. Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple. [1913 Webster]
4. Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold. [1913 Webster]
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To grow like an apple; to bear apples. Holland. [1913 Webster]
apple, n.
1 the fruit of a tree of the genus Malus, rounded in form and with a crisp flesh.
2 the tree bearing this.
Idiom:
apple of one's eye a cherished person or thing. apple-pie bed a bed made (as a joke) with the sheets folded short, so that the legs cannot be accommodated. apple-pie order perfect order; extreme neatness. she's apple Austral. sl. everything is fine. upset the apple-cart spoil careful plans.
Etymology:
OE {aelig}ppel f. Gmc
N food, eating, deglutition, gulp, epulation, mastication, manducation, rumination, gluttony, hippophagy, ichthyophagy, (appetite), mouth, jaws, mandible, mazard, gob, chops, drinking, potation, draught, libation, carousal, drunkenness, food, pabulum, aliment, nourishment, nutriment, sustenance, sustentation, sustention, nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board, commissariat, prey, forage, pasture, pasturage, fare, cheer, diet, dietary, regimen, belly timber, staff of life, bread, bread and cheese, comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta, grub, grubstake, prog, meat, bread, bread stuffs, cerealia, cereals, viands, cates, delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder, fleshpots, festal board, ambrosia, good cheer, good living, beef, bisquit, bun, cornstarch, cookie, cooky, cracker, doughnut, fatling, hardtack, hoecake, hominy, mutton, pilot bread, pork, roti, rusk, ship biscuit, veal, joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled, remove, entremet, releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince, pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat, pie, pasty, volauvent, pudding, omelet, pastry, sweets, kickshaws, condiment, appetizer, hors d'oeuvre, main course, entree, alligator pear, apple, apple slump, artichoke, ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack, atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak, beet root, blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey, chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut, table, cuisine, bill of fare, menu, table d'hote, ordinary, entree, meal, repast, feed, spread, mess, dish, plate, course, regale, regalement, refreshment, entertainment, refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket, breakfast, lunch, luncheon, dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert, potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette, hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal, blowout, light refreshment, bara, chotahazri, bara khana, mouthful, bolus, gobbet, morsel, sop, sippet, drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup, potion, dram, draught, drench, swill, nip, sip, sup, gulp, wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo, heavy wet, grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail, gin, coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates, bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer, Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate, mint julep, near beer, 2 beer, non- alcoholic beverage, eating house, diner, hippophage, glutton, eatable, edible, esculent, comestible, alimentary, cereal, cibarious, dietetic, culinary, nutritive, nutritious, gastric, succulent, potable, potulent, bibulous, omnivorous, carnivorous, herbivorous, granivorous, graminivorous, phytivorous, ichthyivorous, omophagic, omophagous, pantophagous, phytophagous, xylophagous, across the walnuts and the wine, blessed hour of our dinners!, now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!, who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite?.
adam's apple, american crab apple, apple aphid, apple blight, apple butter, apple canker, apple dumpling, apple fritter, apple geranium, apple jelly, apple juice, apple maggot, apple mint, apple nut, apple of discord, apple of peru, apple orchard, apple pie, apple polisher, apple polishing, apple rust, apple sauce, apple tart, apple tree, apple turnover, balsam apple, bell apple, big apple, blade apple, candied apple, candy apple, caramel apple, cherry apple, common thorn apple, cooking apple, crab apple, cultivated crab apple, custard apple, custard apple tree, dessert apple, eating apple, green apple aphid, iowa crab apple, jamaica apple, kai apple, kangaroo apple, kei apple, kei apple bush, love apple, mad apple, mammee apple, may apple, oak apple, orchard apple tree, oregon crab apple, otaheite apple, pitch apple, pond apple, prickly custard apple, rose apple, sea apple, siberian crab apple, sorb apple, sorb apple tree, southern crab apple, star apple, sugar apple, taffy apple, thorn apple, toffee apple, western crab apple, wild apple, woolly apple aphid