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oak apples

oak apples is the plural of oak apple.

Meaning of oak apple

Noun

oak apple (plural oak apples)

  1. A spherical type of oak gall, produced by an oak gall wasp (tribe Cynipini).
    • [T]he small Apples which I have often observ'd to grow on the leaves of an Oak call'd Oak-apples […] are nothing but the Matrices of an Insect, as I elsewhere show.1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXV

Questions about oak apples

What is oak apples the plural of?
Oak apples is the plural of oak apple.

Words near oak apples in the dictionary

  1. Oail
  2. oak
  3. Oak and Nettle Day
  4. oak apple
  5. Oak Apple Day
  6. oak apples
  7. Oak Bay
  8. Oak Bluffs
  9. Oak Brook
  10. Oak Cliff
  11. Oak Creek

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