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apple-bearing

adj

Etymology

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

  1. derived from *beraną✻ — “to bear; carry”
  2. inherited from *berandz✻
  3. inherited from berende — “bearing; fruitful”
  4. inherited from beringe
  5. compounded as apple-bearing — “apple + bearing”

Definitions

  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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA