Earth apple


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(Bot.) A potato.
A cucumber.

See also: Earth, Earth

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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It is also called earth apple. | It is actually a species of sunflower native to North America.
Who's grubbed potatoes from a row who's not mistaken stone for staple, for earth apple? In Ovid, didn't Pyrrha sow stones, the bones of the great mother, to repeople a drowned world?
There was no way on God's green earth Apple would price its next iPhone at $800, or anything close to that.
Their efforts paid off in another way, too, because Blanke and her students won this year's Earth Apple Award from Green Schools, along with a trip to the Smart Design Forum in Washington, D.C.
There is no way on God's green earth Apple would price its next iPhone at $800.
Jerusalem artichokes, also 1 called sunchokes, sunroots or earth apples, are not artichokes at all, nor have they anything to do with Jerusalem.
The best work of the evening was Itzik Galili's Earth Apples,
His Blind Kingdom and Earth Apples for NDT 2 and Ma's Bandage for Scapino are emotional, impulsive, and from the heart.

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