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apple-bearing

apple-bearing adjective: bearing, producing, or capable of producing apples.

Adjective

apple-bearing (comparative more apple-bearing, superlative most apple-bearing)

  1. 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 Yearbook
    Synonyms:
    pomiferous

Synonyms of apple-bearing

Forms of apple-bearing

comparativemore apple-bearing
superlativemost apple-bearing
alternative formapplebearing

Origin of apple-bearing

From apple + bearing. Compare Old English æppelbǣre (literally “apple-bearing”).

Questions about apple-bearing

What does apple-bearing mean?
Apple-bearing means bearing, producing, or capable of producing apples.
What part of speech is apple-bearing?
Apple-bearing is an adjective.

Words near apple-bearing in the dictionary

  1. apple weevils
  2. apple wine
  3. apple wines
  4. apple worm
  5. apple worms
  6. apple-bearing
  7. apple-bee
  8. apple-bees
  9. apple-berries
  10. apple-berry
  11. apple-box

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