oak apple

Example sentences from the Web for oak apple

• Take as an example C. quercus, which produces the spongy excrescence well known as the common Oak-apple.

  Omphalos |Philip Henry Gosse

• The most probable opinion is that intelligence is an excrescence, like an oak-apple.

  Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas |Remy de Gourmont

• Oak-Apple Day, I fear, will never again become a general holiday.

  Holidays & Happy-Days |Hamish Hendry