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oak apple
oak apple
noun
- any of various brownish round galls on oak trees, containing the larva of certain wasps
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Word History and Origins
Origin of oak apple1
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50
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Example Sentences
The Arabs received the kermis from Armenia, and the name was originally “Quer-més,” “oak-apple.”
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The well-known oak-apple, and the red hairy-looking body found upon hedge-roses, are both galls produced in the same way.
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Take as an example C. quercus, which produces the spongy excrescence well known as the common Oak-apple.
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The most probable opinion is that intelligence is an excrescence, like an oak-apple.
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Oak-Apple Day, I fear, will never again become a general holiday.
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