apple-tree

See also: appletree and apple tree

English

Noun

apple-tree (plural apple-trees)

1. Rare form of apple tree.
   • 1838, Parley's Magazine (American periodical series: 1800-1850)‎^[1], volume 6, C.S. Francis & Company, →OCLC, THE APPLE-TREE, page 290:

     And I'll sing a song as rare
     Of the apple-tree!
     The red-bloomed apple-tree;
     The red-cheeked apple-tree;

   • 2008, Liberty Hyde Bailey, The Apple-Tree: the Open Country (Library of Alexandria)‎^[2], Library of Alexandria, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     Many years ago, my old friend, the late Dr. J. A. Lintner, State Entomologist of New York, compiled a list of 356 insects that feed on the apple-tree. Later authorities place the number at nearly five hundred species.

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