applicability

[Eng. applicable; -ity.] The quality of being applicable to anything. " which charge is certainly not true as respects Polybius, whatever applicability it may have to the others."-Lewis: Early Rom. Hist ., chap. ii., § 7. ap'-pli-ca-ble, a. [In Fr. applicable ; Sp. aplicable; Ital. applicabile .] Which may be applied, or which is proper or suitable to be the genus of shells called Ampullar i a. apple-tree, s. 1. Pyrus mal us . The tree of which apples are the fruit. It is the crab apple-tree, a member of the British flora, much altered by centuries of cultivation. [APPLE, A., Ι. 1; CRAB-APPLE.] "Of a young apple - tree ,..." Words worth: Excursion, bk. i. 2. The apple -tree of Scripture, in Heb. תּפּוּחַ )tappûach), from the root נָפַח ) naphăch ) = to breathe, also to emit a scent. Apparently not CITRUS MEDICA (APPLE OF SCRIPTURE). 2 1. Citrus Medica in fruit (one-seventh its natural size). 2. Cro section of fruit. the apple-tree, the fruit of which is indifferent in Palestine, except on Mount Lebanon; but the citron-tree ( Citrus medic a ), the only species of the Orange tribe known to the ancients. "As the apple -tree among the trees of the wood,.."-Song of Solomon, ii. 3.