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Meaning of oak apple | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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

Examples

“[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.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

Oak Apple Day Oak Bay Oak Bluffs Oak Cliff Oak Creek oak decline