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n. The central portion of an apple containing the seeds and where the stem attaches (and the opposed end). Particularly the portion that remains after the main part of the fruit has been eaten.
Usage examples of "apple core".
She stood, gathering up the Frappuccino bottle and the apple core.
He dropped the apple core in her lap and walked off, disappearing in the crowd.
Then an apple core, from which she took a judicious nibble before wrinkling up her nose and tossing it into the stream.
The floor was strewn with bits of the monks' leavings: nutshells, an apple core, scraps of slate roof tiles on which messages had been written in petty contravention of the silence vowsit looked more like a cage for apes or festival bears than a room where men of God came to sing the Lord's praises.
Kahlan squatted and rolled the apple core out of her hand onto the ground.
Crumpled up in a sweaty ball at the bottom was my gym uniform, old lunch bags, candy wrappers, a monthold apple core that was browning nicely, and a pair of ratty black sneakers.
She plucked an apple core from the wooden bucket of little animal snacks they kept hanging on a piece of twine where the chipmunks couldn't get to them on their own.
Dethor said, throwing an apple core into the fire in a gesture of exasperation.
He flicked the apple core over his right shoulder and it vanished.
She drew breath finally, and Nynaeve abandoned the notion of throwing her last apple core at her and darted into the momentary quiet.