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Origin of oak apple

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

Words nearby oak apple

OA, oaf, oafish, Oahu, oak, oak apple, Oak-apple Day, Oak Creek, Oakdale, oaked, oaken

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How to use oak apple in a sentence

The Arabs received the kermis from Armenia, and the name was originally “Quer-més,” “oak-apple.”
Needlework As Art|Marian Alford
The well-known oak-apple, and the red hairy-looking body found upon hedge-roses, are both galls produced in the same way.
An Elementary Text-book of the Microscope|John William Griffith
Take as an example C. quercus, which produces the spongy excrescence well known as the common Oak-apple.
Omphalos|Philip Henry Gosse
The most probable opinion is that intelligence is an excrescence, like an oak-apple.
Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas|Remy de Gourmont

Oak-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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