Definition of "apple tree" [apple tree]

• Any tree that bears apples, principally Malus domestica but also certain wild species. (noun)

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• "Petals were falling from the apple tree just outside."
• "I could hear the buzzing of bees, attracted by the trilliums and hepaticas growing at the end of my yard and the pink buds of the single wild apple tree that marked the start of my driveway."
• "Sighing, she poured some perfumed water into it and then dropped a few petals from the blooming branch of apple tree that Madame Rallay had brought in."