Meanings
comparative more apple-bearing · superlative most apple-bearing · alternative applebearing
- 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.
2001, Modern Greek Studies YearbookSynonyms: pomiferous
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveBearing, producing, or capable of producing apples
Origin
From apple + bearing. Compare Old English æppelbǣre (literally “apple-bearing”).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Welsh afalog, afalddwyn
- afalogbearing apples
- afalddwynbearing apples
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