Definitions for love-apple

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love-apple love apple

Love-Apple is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 166 anagrams from letters in love-apple (-aeelloppv).

Definitions for love-apple

noun

1. a tropical, tender plant, Solanum aculeatissimum, of the nightshade family, having prickly leaves, clusters of large, star-shaped white flowers, and red, tomatolike fruit.
2. Archaic. the tomato.

Origin of love-apple

1570-80; compare French pomme d'amour, German Liebesapfel

Examples for love-apple

In Sicily, when a young man is in love, he presents the object of his affections with a love apple.

Yet the Tomato or love apple (so called because it was supposed to excite tender feelings) is both nutritious and delicious.