oak apple

noun

oak gall.

Words nearby oak apple

o2o, oa, oaf, oahu, oak, oak apple, oak creek, oak fern, oak forest, oak gall, oak harbor

Origin of oak apple

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

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Examples from the Web for oak apple

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

British Dictionary definitions for oak apple

oak apple

oak gall

noun

any of various brownish round galls on oak trees, containing the larva of certain wasps

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