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Dead Sea apples

Dead Sea apples is the plural of Dead Sea apple.

Meaning of Dead Sea apple

Noun

Dead Sea apple (plural Dead Sea apples)

  1. A fruit, supposed to dissolve into smoke or ash when plucked.
    • The man who makes himself a slave to gold is a miserable wretch indeed, winning for his prize the "Dead Sea apple" - golden without, but ashes within.1862, Duncan George Forbes Macdonald, British Columbia and Vancouver's Island, Comprising a Description of These Dependencies
    Synonyms:
    apple of Sodom

Questions about Dead Sea apples

What is Dead Sea apples the plural of?
Dead Sea apples is the plural of Dead Sea apple.

Words near Dead Sea apples in the dictionary

  1. dead rubber
  2. dead rubbers
  3. dead run
  4. dead sea
  5. Dead Sea apple
  6. Dead Sea apples
  7. Dead Sea effect
  8. dead section
  9. dead sections
  10. dead set
  11. dead set against

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