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oak apple

noun



oak apple

noun

  1. any of various brownish round galls on oak trees, containing the larva of certain wasps
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of oak apple1

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50
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Example Sentences

The Arabs received the kermis from Armenia, and the name was originally “Quer-més,” “oak-apple.”

The well-known oak-apple, and the red hairy-looking body found upon hedge-roses, are both galls produced in the same way.

Take as an example C. quercus, which produces the spongy excrescence well known as the common Oak-apple.

The most probable opinion is that intelligence is an excrescence, like an oak-apple.

Oak-Apple Day, I fear, will never again become a general holiday.

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