Apple

noun

1. the round fruit of a tree of the rose family, which typically has thin red or green skin and crisp flesh. Many varieties have been developed as dessert or cooking fruit or for making cider.
 * an unrelated fruit that resembles an apple in some way.

2. the tree which bears apples.

3. short for Big Apple.

Example phrases and sentences
The apple never falls far from the tree.

The apple of one’s eye.