apple-tree

plural apple-trees

1. rareRare form of apple tree.

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

   1838, Parley's Magazine (American periodical series: 1800-1850), volume 6, C.S. Francis & Company, →OCLC, THE APPLE-TREE, page 290

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   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.

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