oak apple
English
Alternative forms
- oak-apple
Noun
oak apple (plural oak apples)
- A spherical type of oak gall. [from 15th c.]
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXV:
- [T]he small Apples which I have often observ'd to grow on the leaves of an Oak call'd Oak-apples […] are nothing but the Matrices of an Insect, as I elsewhere show.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXV:
Derived terms
Translations
oak gall — see oak gall
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