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mad apple

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English

Syllables
mad ap-ple
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Eggplant.

Archaic

noun

Thorn apple.

noun

Dead Sea apple.

Etymology

Calque of Renaissance Latin malum insanum, itself calqued from Italian melanzana, reanalyzed as if mela insana, perhaps under the influence of beliefs that it could cause various diseases. See further etymology at melongene.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

mad apples (plural) mad-apple (alternative)

Synonyms

eggplant aubergine brinjal eggplant bush garden egg solanum melongena

Questions

What does mad apple mean?
Eggplant.
Where does mad apple come from?
It is traced to Italian.

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