Tree vs. Apple — What's the Difference?

In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only wood plants with secondary growth, plants that are usable as lumber or plants above a specified height.

An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (Malus domestica). Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus Malus.

A woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches at some distance from the ground.

The round fruit of a tree of the rose family, which typically has thin green or red skin and crisp flesh.

A wooden structure or part of a structure.

The tree bearing apples, with hard pale timber that is used in carpentry and to smoke food.

A thing that has a branching structure resembling that of a tree.

A cultivated deciduous tree (Malus domestica or M. pumila) in the rose family, native to Eurasia and having alternate simple leaves and white or pink flowers.

Force (a hunted animal) to take refuge in a tree.

The firm, edible, usually rounded fruit of this tree.

(of an area) planted with trees

Any of several other plants, especially those with fruits suggestive of the apple, such as the crabapple or custard apple.

A perennial woody plant having a main trunk and usually a distinct crown.

The fruit of any of these plants.

An herbaceous plant or shrub resembling a tree in form or size.

A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates.

Something that resembles a tree in form, especially a diagram or arrangement that has branches showing relationships of hierarchy or lineage.

Any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing produced by a plant such as a gall or cone, especially if produced by a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of specific fruits such as custard apple, rose apple, thorn apple etc.

(Computers) A structure for organizing or classifying data in which every item can be traced to a single origin through a unique path.

Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica, such as a globe, ball, or breast.

A wooden beam, post, stake, or bar used as part of a framework or structure.

The ball in baseball.

A saddletree.

(informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.

A gallows.

The Adam's apple.

The cross on which Jesus was crucified.

(Christianity) The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.

To force up a tree

A tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.

(Informal) To force into a difficult position; corner

The wood of the apple tree.

To supply or cover with trees

Short for apples and pears, slang for stairs.

A perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but differentiated from a shrub by its larger size (typically over a few meters in height) or growth habit, usually having a single (or few) main axis or trunk unbranched for some distance above the ground and a head of branches and foliage.

A Native American or red-skinned person who acts and/or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.

Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree (in any botanical sense).

An assist.

An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.

(slang) A CB radio enthusiast.

A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.

(ambitransitive) To make or become apple-like.

The structural frame of a saddle.

(obsolete) To form buds, bulbs, or fruit.

(graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.

The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.

(computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.

Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.

(graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.

Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.

Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.

Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.

The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.

To grow like an apple; to bear apples.

Marijuana.

Fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

(obsolete) A cross or gallows.

Native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits

(chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.

(cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.

(transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.

(transitive) To place in a tree.

(transitive) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.

(intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.

Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.

A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; - used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.

A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.

Wood; timber.

A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.

To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.

A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

A figure that branches from a single root;

English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)

Chase a bear up a tree with dogs and kill it