The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word APPLE
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More clues leading to the result APPLE
- Fruit drink containing pip's husk
- Strange plea associated with introduction of passion fruit
- Fruit horse possibly ignored at first
- Fruit drink is about a couple of pence
- Tree spotted with extremities eaten away
- Fruit beer — keeping very quiet
- Fruit tree separated from fruit
- Place for one in a pie?
- Spotted peeled fruit
- Perfect tricky bed arrangement
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What does APPLE mean?
APPLE noun- A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates.
- Any of various tree-borne fruits or vegetables especially considered as resembling an apple; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of other specific fruits such as custard apple, rose apple, thorn apple etc.
- The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.
- A tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.
- The wood of the apple tree.
- (in the plural) Short for apples and pears, slang for stairs.
- The ball in baseball.
- When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.
- A Native American or red-skinned person who acts and/or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.
- (ice hockey slang) An assist.
- To become apple-like.
- To form buds.