the fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.-any tree genus pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.-any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.-anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.-to grow like an apple; to bear apples.