groundapple
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An apple that has fallen to the ground.
Example Sentences
- "It was a chesol deer, tawny as the Plains grasses when they flowered. A number of other wolves – five, six – followed them; these carried groundapples in their mouths."
- "It's a change of scenery, at least." He picked up a ground apple. "What else do you have in there?""
- ""Why, it is a ground-apple," and taking it from her he cut off a piece and put it in his mouth. In an instant, he cried: "You vixen! you knew that was Indian turnip - the most infernal thing that ever grew in a civilized country.""
- "If the child had formerly lived in a country where apples grew, but potatoes did not, the first time he saw a potato he would probably call it a ground-apple."
- "Seven days later the naked Colter, thin from existing on "groundapple," an edible root, his feet bloody, arrived at the fort 220 miles away."
- ""Let's to around back 'til I get them groundapples out of their suits or we'll have to open a can of chowder.""