apple-bearing

English

Alternative forms

• applebearing

Etymology

From apple +‎ bearing. Compare Old English æppelbǣre (literally “apple-bearing”).

Adjective

apple-bearing (comparative more apple-bearing, superlative most apple-bearing)

1. Bearing, producing, or capable of producing apples
   • 2001, Modern Greek Studies Yearbook:

     It would not be very flattering to the teaching profession if I were to enumerate to you how many times I was punished in order to be compelled to say, right or wrong, that an apple tree was an apple-bearing tree.

Synonyms

• pomiferous (less common)

Translations

bearing apples

• Welsh: afalog, afalddwyn m