oak apple
noun
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Origin of oak apple
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50
Words nearby oak apple
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Example sentences 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 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
oak apple
oak gall
noun
any of various brownish round galls on oak trees, containing the larva of certain wasps
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