groundapples

Noun

groundapple (plural groundapples)

1. An apple that has fallen to the ground.
   • It was a chesol deer, tawny as the Plains grasses when they flowered. A number of other wolves – five, six – followed them; these carried groundapples in their mouths.2017, Gill Alderman, Lilith’s Castle
2. (rare, regional) An edible root or tuber, particularly, a potato or turnip.
   • "Why, it is a ground-apple," and taking it from her he cut off a piece and put it in his mouth. In an instant, he cried: "You vixen! you knew that was Indian turnip - the most infernal thing that ever grew in a civilized country."1892, Mrs. S. E. Henderson, Jelard, page 252