groundapple noun2 •An apple that has fallen to the ground.It was a chesol deer, tawny as the Plains grasses when they flowered. A number of other wolves – five, six – followed them; these carried groundapples in their mouths. — 2017 •(rare) An edible root or tuber, particularly, a potato or turnip.If the child had formerly lived in a country where apples grew, but potatoes did not, the first time he saw a potato he would probably call it a ground-apple. — 1900 formsgroundapples
