apple core

English

Alternative forms

• applecore

Noun

apple core (plural apple cores)

1. The central portion of an apple containing the seeds and where the stem attaches (and the opposed end). Particularly the portion that remains after the main part of the fruit has been eaten.

   Meronyms: apple seed, apple pip

Related terms

• apple-corer
• core (verb)
• corer
• one bad apple can spoil the barrel
• rotten to the core

Translations

the central portion of an apple

Dutch: klokhuis (nl) Finnish: omenankara French: trognon de pomme m German: Griebs (de) m (literary and regional German German), Apfelkerngehäuse n (stilted or when no picture of apples has been made yet, without that Kerngehäuse (de) n “core” clearly refers to a fruit already), Apfelkern (de) m Alemannic German: Bütschgi (Zurich), Bitschgi (Graubünden, southern St. Gallen), Butschgi (Graubünden), Bitzgi (St. Gallen, Thurgau), Güürbsi (Aarau), Gütschi (Glarus), Bätzgi (Lucerne, Uri), Gigetschi (Solothurn), Gröibschi (Bern), Gröitschi (Bern), Grübschi (Bern), Huusi (Valais), Murmutz (Valais) Hungarian: almacsutka (hu) Polish: ogryzek (pl) m Portuguese: miolo/caroço de/da maçã m Romanian: cotor (ro) n Swedish: skrutt (sv), skrott (sv), äppelskrutt, äppelskrott Turkish: elma eşeleği

References

• “apple core”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.