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groundapple

noun

Etymology

From ground + apple. Compare earthapple.

  1. inherited from *h₂ébōl✻
  2. inherited from *aplaz✻ — “apple; any type of fruit”
  3. inherited from *applu✻ — “apple; any type of fruit”
  4. inherited from æppel — “apple; any type of fruit; (figurative) ball, sphere; eyeball”
  5. inherited from appel — “Malus domestica fruit or tree, apple; any type of fruit, nut, or tuber; tree bearing fruit; (figurative) ball, sphere; (Christianity) forbidden fruit in Eden”
  6. compounded as groundapple — “ground + apple”

Definitions

  1. An apple that has fallen to the ground.

    • It was a chesol deer, tawny as the Plains grasses when they flowered. A number of other wolves – five, six – followed them; these carried groundapples in their mouths.
    • It's a change of scenery, at least." He picked up a ground apple. "What else do you have in there?"

  2. An edible root or tuber, particularly, a potato or turnip.

    • "Why, it is a ground-apple," and taking it from her he cut off a piece and put it in his mouth. In an instant, he cried: "You vixen! you knew that was Indian turnip - the most infernal thing that ever grew in a civilized country."
    • If the child had formerly lived in a country where apples grew, but potatoes did not, the first time he saw a potato he would probably call it a ground-apple.
    • Seven days later the naked Colter, thin from existing on "groundapple," an edible root, his feet bloody, arrived at the fort 220 miles away.

The neighborhood

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