oak apple

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 Alford

• The 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 Griffith

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

  Omphalos | Philip Henry Gosse

• 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

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

  Holidays & Happy-Days | Hamish Hendry