oak apple

Historical Examples of oak apple

• Oak-Apple Day, I fear, will never again become a general holiday.

  Holidays & Happy-Days

  Hamish Hendry

• The Arabs received the kermis from Armenia, and the name was originally “Quer-més,” “oak-apple.”

  Needlework As Art

  Marian Alford

• The most probable opinion is that intelligence is an excrescence, like an oak-apple.

  Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas

  Remy de Gourmont

• Take as an example C. quercus, which produces the spongy excrescence well known as the common Oak-apple.

  Omphalos

  Philip Henry Gosse