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applehood

applehood noun: the quality of being an apple.

Noun

applehood (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being an apple.
    • We see an apple. We see it as an apple. Do we see of it its applehood?1978, Wilfrid Sellars, The Role of Imagination in Kant's Theory of Experience

Origin of applehood

From apple + -hood.

Questions about applehood

What does applehood mean?
Applehood means the quality of being an apple.
What part of speech is applehood?
Applehood is a noun.

Words near applehood in the dictionary

  1. Applegates
  2. applegrower
  3. applegrowers
  4. applehead
  5. appleheads
  6. applehood
  7. appleish
  8. applejack
  9. applejacks
  10. applejohn
  11. applejohns

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