Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The pupil, or pupil and iris, of the eye, originally believed to be spherical; also, the eyeball.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: apple, eye-apple
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English appel of the eyȝe, appel of þe ye, perhaps dissimilated from Middle English ij appel (literally “eye-apple”). More at eye-apple.
