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English Language & Usage Asked on July 2, 2021

apple: a round fruit with firm, white flesh and a green, red, or yellow skin.

If I use ‘apple’ as ‘a round fruit with firm, white animal flesh and a green, red, or yellow animal skin,’ is it grammatically and semantically right at least in imagination but not idiomatic?

I wonder because I want to use anthropomorphism, and it needs not only to be like animals, but also to be an animal, so I want to use this word in a unusual sense.

One Answer

If you define an apple to be an animal, that is allowable in a cartoon or a story for example. However in that case there is no need to specify "animal flesh" because all animals have animal flesh!

What you should say is:

apple: a round animal with firm, white flesh and a green, red, or yellow skin.

Correct answer by chasly - supports Monica on July 2, 2021

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