Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

oak apple

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.08 in modern English

Syllables: oak ap-ple
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A spherical type of oak gall, produced by an oak gall wasp (tribe Cynipini).

Example Sentences

"[T]he small Apples which I have often observ'd to grow on the leaves of an Oak call'd Oak-apples […] are nothing but the Matrices of an Insect, as I elsewhere show."

Inflected Forms

oak apples (plural) oak-apple (alternative)

Phrases

Oak Apple Day

Questions

What does oak apple mean?: A spherical type of oak gall, produced by an oak gall wasp (tribe Cynipini).

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