pond-apple

[ pond-ap-uhl ]

/ ˈpɒndˌæp əl /

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noun

a tropical American, evergreen tree, Annona glabra, of the annona family, having yellowish-red flowers, grown as a grafting stock.

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Origin of pond-apple

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85

Words nearby pond-apple

Poncelet, poncey, Ponchielli, poncho, pond, pond-apple, ponder, ponderable, ponderosa pine, ponderous, pond hockey

How to use pond-apple in a sentence

Leapolitan responded by saying, “hopefully youll [sic] bite into a poison apple.”
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Apple customers, on the other hand, are used to paying premium for perceived quality.
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Just who is crazy enough to go swimming when the pond across the street has a layer of ice across the top?
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The process of co-opting black music and selling it back to the adoring public in whiteface is as American as apple pie.
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Companies like Delta, Apple, and Nike flex their political muscle on behalf of gay rights.
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A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
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It was no wonder that he felt quite at home in the duck-pond, which was made for web-footed folk.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey
This gives to the second volume something of the smell of an apple store-room.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
Twenty acres of apple trees all in a orchard together, and twenty acres of strawberries set out betwixt and between the rows!
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All this while Squinty was chewing on the apple which he had picked up from the ground after he had jumped over the rope.
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