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oak apple
oak apple
noun
- any of various brownish round galls on oak trees, containing the larva of certain wasps
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yĐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of oak apple1
late Middle English word dating back to 1400â50
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Example Sentences
Eiseman was familiar with galls long before writing his first book, particularly the common ones referred to as âoak apples,â for their large size and roughly spherical shape.
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Instead, Frith sent them strange singers, beautiful and sick like oak apples, like robinsâ pincushions on the wild rose.
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With silvery oak apples, and fir cones brownâ
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Green boughs and oak apples were worn, and even flaunted, about the streets, by groups of persons on May 29th, the anniversary of Charles the Second's restoration.
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âThey flogged three soldiers to death the other day for wearing oak apples in their caps.â
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