Adjective: apple-bearing
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more apple-bearing |
| Superlative | most apple-bearing |
Sample Sentences
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It would not be very flattering to the teaching profession if I were to enumerate to you how many times I was punished in order to be compelled to say, right or wrong, that an apple tree was an apple-bearing tree. [2001, Modern Greek Studies Yearbook]
Adjectives inflected like apple-bearing
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From apple + bearing. Compare Old English æppelbǣre (literally “apple-bearing”).