Definitions
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- adjective having the approximate size of an apple
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Examples
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There was a fantastical dwarf forest and they are harvesting apple-sized rubies.
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There was a fantastical dwarf forest and they are harvesting apple-sized rubies.
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They had black, apple-sized goiters on their body.
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There was a fantastical dwarf forest and they are harvesting apple-sized rubies.
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There was a fantastical dwarf forest and they are harvesting apple-sized rubies.
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Climbing up, I perch on a branch laden with leathery, brown, apple-sized fruits.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Climbing up, I perch on a branch laden with leathery, brown, apple-sized fruits.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Climbing up, I perch on a branch laden with leathery, brown, apple-sized fruits.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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In the end, I guess, the trick was several years of cleaning up under the tree coddling moths bore a hole in the developing apple, eat the core leaving a disgusting mess, and when the rotting apple drops to the ground, burrows in the soil for the winter and something called sticky traps; red apple-sized globes which are coated with the most remarkably sticky stuff ever invented.
Happiness Is Christine Robinson 2007
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In the end, I guess, the trick was several years of cleaning up under the tree coddling moths bore a hole in the developing apple, eat the core leaving a disgusting mess, and when the rotting apple drops to the ground, burrows in the soil for the winter and something called sticky traps; red apple-sized globes which are coated with the most remarkably sticky stuff ever invented.
Archive 2007-08-01 Christine Robinson 2007
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