Noun: love apple
| Singular | love apple |
| Plural | love apples |
Sample Sentences
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Perhaps the most common vegetable in Greece is the tomato... How far the little love apple has come. [2002, R. Sterling et al., World Food: Greece, page 47:]
Nouns inflected like love apple
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Calque of Italian pomo d'oro (“tomato”, literally “golden apple”), confusing d’oro (“golden”) with d’amore (“love”), or from French pomme d'amour, equivalent to love + apple. See: Italian Nouns '
pomo d'oro', French Nouns '
pomme d'amour'.