Word.ws English Dictionary

chess-apple

chess-apple noun: the wild service tree of Europe (Sorbus torminalis).

Noun

chess-apple (plural chess-apples)

  1. (archaic) The wild service tree of Europe (Sorbus torminalis).

Forms of chess-apple

pluralchess-apples

Questions about chess-apple

What does chess-apple mean?
Chess-apple means the wild service tree of Europe (Sorbus torminalis).
What part of speech is chess-apple?
Chess-apple is a noun.
What is the plural of chess-apple?
The plural of chess-apple is chess-apples.

Words near chess-apple in the dictionary

  1. chess sets
  2. chess tart
  3. chess tarts
  4. chess timer
  5. chess timers
  6. chess-apple
  7. chess-apples
  8. chess-like
  9. chess-piece
  10. chess-pieces
  11. chess-player

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chess-apple (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-chess-apple.wav.

Cite this entry: “chess-apple.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chess-apple. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.