How to use oak apple in a sentence
The Arabs received the kermis from Armenia, and the name was originally “Quer-més,” “oak-apple.”
Needlework As Art | Marian AlfordThe well-known oak-apple, and the red hairy-looking body found upon hedge-roses, are both galls produced in the same way.
An Elementary Text-book of the Microscope | John William GriffithTake as an example C. quercus, which produces the spongy excrescence well known as the common Oak-apple.
Omphalos | Philip Henry GosseThe most probable opinion is that intelligence is an excrescence, like an oak-apple.
Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas | Remy de GourmontOak-Apple Day, I fear, will never again become a general holiday.
Holidays & Happy-Days | Hamish Hendry
British Dictionary definitions for oak apple
any of various brownish round galls on oak trees, containing the larva of certain wasps
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