love apple

noun

a tropical, tender plant, Solanum aculeatissimum, of the nightshade family, having prickly leaves, clusters of large, star-shaped white flowers, and red, tomatolike fruit.
Archaic. the tomato.

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1570–80; compare French pomme d'amour, German Liebesapfel

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Yet the Tomato or Love Apple (so called because it was supposed to excite tender feelings) is both nutritious and delicious.

They're nearly gone; but I shall always love apple blossoms.

So far was he concern'd in looking after that Love-apple, or Night-shadow, for the cure of his own burning distemper.

In Sicily, when a young man is in love, he presents the object of his affections with a love Apple.

All swallow the love-apple bait presented by some wicked genius of the devil, who sports with the affections of mankind.

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