Apple Word Search

Apple parts, orchard words and old variety names for a September apple unit, with an answer key.

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TRTAOWXECESINXO

PWWOSSEAUTUMNAB

ASROALMOKGBWOPI

RAPFUJIOBRPPDPE

MRPNCRDZLAEQOLF

ZPMLEAFHONEYBEE

RCIDERLOSNLTEHY

BUSHELDNSYSWHSZ

MNZTJGSDOSLEAWD

ENRRIRTJMMIMRFW

CHDGALADAIZRVNS

ORCHARDSFTSGEDC

RSETDITIIHRVSSE

ESAFLPMAUXIJTWE

NIYSCEHTMGDLPEI

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AppleAPPLE
CoreCORE
PeelPEEL
BlossomBLOSSOM
LeafLEAF
GalaGALA
FujiFUJI
Granny SmithGRANNY SMITH
OrchardORCHARD
BushelBUSHEL
HarvestHARVEST
RipeRIPE
HoneybeeHONEYBEE
AutumnAUTUMN
CiderCIDER
SauceSAUCE

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TRTAOWXECESINXO

PWWOSSEAUTUMNAB

ASROALMOKGBWOPI

RAPFUJIOBRPPDPE

MRPNCRDZLAEQOLF

ZPMLEAFHONEYBEE

RCIDERLOSNLTEHY

BUSHELDNSYSWHSZ

MNZTJGSDOSLEAWD

ENRRIRTJMMIMRFW

CHDGALADAIZRVNS

ORCHARDSFTSGEDC

RSETDITIIHRVSSE

ESAFLPMAUXIJTWE

NIYSCEHTMGDLPEI

APPLE, CORE, PEEL, BLOSSOM, LEAF, GALA, FUJI, GRANNY SMITH, ORCHARD, BUSHEL, HARVEST, RIPE, HONEYBEE, AUTUMN, CIDER, SAUCE

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Parts of an Apple and Its Tree 15

Apple The round fruit of a tree that began in Central Asia, where its wild ancestor still grows.
Blossom The flowers of a fruit tree, which open in great numbers for a time in spring.
Branch In botany, a side stem that springs from a larger one.
Bud An undeveloped shoot at the tip of a stem or beside a leaf; it may open into a flower.
Calyx The sepals of a flower taken together; they protect the flower in bud.
Core The central part of the fruit, which holds the seeds.
Flesh The soft, edible part of a fruit, between the skin and the core.
Fruit The seed-bearing structure that forms from a flower after flowering.
Leaf A part that grows from the stem of a plant, usually above ground, and is specialized for photosynthesis.
Peel The outer protective layer of a fruit, also known as the rind or skin.
Petal One of the modified leaves around the center of a flower, often brightly colored to attract pollinators.
Pollen A powdery substance made by flowers; apple flowers need it from another tree before fruit can develop.
Pome The kind of fruit with a central core of small seeds, a tough membrane round it and a layer of edible flesh.
Seed A plant embryo with stored food inside a protective coat; each chamber of the core holds one or two.
Stem The part of a plant that supports its leaves, flowers and fruits.

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Apple Varieties 22

Arkansas Black A late-1800s variety that darkens as it ripens until it is a very dark or purplish red.
Baldwin A bright red winter variety, the most popular in New England during the 1800s.
Braeburn A firm variety, streaked red and orange, found as a chance seedling in New Zealand in 1952.
Bramley An English variety that is usually eaten cooked, because it is so sour.
Cortland A variety developed in Geneva, New York, in 1898 and named after a county of that state.
Crabapple A small wild relative of the orchard fruit, mostly too sour to sell; growers use it as a rootstock.
Empire A variety named after the nickname of New York, its home state.
Fuji A variety developed in Japan in the 1930s as a cross of two American ones.
Gala A sweet, mild variety from New Zealand, striped or mottled orange or reddish.
Golden Delicious A top variety of the United States that, in spite of its name, is not closely related to the red one.
Granny Smith A hard, tart variety with light green skin that began in Australia in 1868.
Gravenstein A tart cooking variety from the 1600s or earlier that does not keep well and is sold only in season.
Jonagold A variety from New York that is also popular in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Jonathan A variety thought to have begun in Woodstock, New York, in the 1800s; many newer ones were bred from it.
Macoun A cross of the McIntosh and the Jersey Black, released in 1932.
McIntosh A variety with red and green skin and tender white flesh, considered the national apple of Canada.
Newtown Pippin An American variety from the late 1600s or early 1700s, still grown on a small scale.
Northern Spy A New York variety that dates from about 1840 and is popular in the upstate part of its home state.
Red Delicious A sweet variety that began as a chance seedling, first recognized in Madison County, Iowa, in 1872.
Rome Beauty A glossy red variety from a township in Ohio, liked for baking and cooking.
Roxbury Russet A greyish-green variety, believed to be the oldest bred in the United States, from the mid-1600s.
Winesap An old American variety of unknown origin, sweet with a tangy finish and prized for making cider.

In the Orchard 19

Autumn The season between summer and winter, also called fall in North America.
Bushel A dry measure that holds four pecks.
Codling Moth A major pest of fruit crops; its larva is the worm that people find when they bite into an apple.
Crate A large, strong shipping container, often made of wood.
Cultivar A kind of cultivated plant chosen for its traits, which it keeps when it is propagated.
Grafting Joining tissues of two plants so that they grow on as one; growers copy the best varieties this way.
Harvest The gathering of ripe crops, and the crops that have been gathered.
Honeybee A social flying insect that builds wax nests of six-sided cells and stores honey.
Ladder A set of rungs or steps for climbing up or down.
Orchard A planting of fruit or nut trees kept for the food they bear.
Peck A dry measure of 8 dry quarts; some produce, apples among it, is still often sold by it in the U.S.
Picking Removing fruit from the tree by hand.
Pollination The transfer of pollen to the part of a flower that receives it, which lets seeds form.
Pruning Cutting chosen branches, buds or roots off a plant.
Ripe Ready to eat: as fruit reaches this stage it turns sweeter, less green and softer.
Rootstock The rooted plant, sometimes just a stump, that a grower joins a bud or cutting to.
Sapling A young tree, larger than a seedling.
Thinning Taking some fruit or plants away so that those left have room to grow.
Windfall A fruit that has fallen from the tree naturally, as when the wind blows it down.

From Apples to the Table 21

Bobbing A game in which players try to catch floating apples with their teeth.
Brown Betty A traditional American dessert of fruit, usually apple, baked in layers with sweetened crumbs.
Caramel The hot, sweet coating into which an apple on a stick is dipped or rolled.
Chips Snacks made from apples that are fried, dried or baked.
Cider In the United States and Canada, an unfiltered, unsweetened drink made from apples.
Cinnamon A spice that comes from the inner bark of certain trees.
Cobbler A dish of fruit filling in a large baking dish, covered with batter, biscuit or dumpling and baked.
Crisp A baked fruit dessert with a streusel topping, called a crumble in the UK and Canada.
Dumpling A peeled, cored apple wrapped in pastry and baked or boiled.
Fritter A portion of fruit or another food that is battered or breaded and then deep-fried.
Jelly A sweet fruit preserve, often eaten at breakfast with bread.
Juice A drink made by pressing apples.
Pectin A substance in the cell walls of plants, used as a gelling agent in jams.
Pie A baked dish of fruit filling with pastry above and below; the top may be solid or woven in strips.
Pomace The solid remains of fruit after it is pressed for juice: skins, pulp, seeds and stems.
Press A device that separates juice from the solid parts of fruit.
Sauce A purée of apples, peeled or unpeeled, that can be spiced or sweetened.
Strudel A traditional pastry of Vienna, popular in Austria and in countries that once belonged to its empire.
Tarte Tatin A French tart of fruit, usually apples, caramelized with butter and sugar and baked with the pastry on top.
Turnover A pastry made by folding dough over a filling, sealing it, and baking or frying it.
Vinegar A sour liquid made from cider in two steps of fermentation, used in salad dressings.

Apple Science and Stories 12

Almaty A city in Central Asia whose name is often translated as full of apples, though that origin is disputed.
Appleseed The nickname of John Chapman, a pioneer nurseryman who grew trees from seed in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
Browning A chemical change that turns foods such as apples, potatoes and bananas brown.
Ethylene A gas that acts as a plant hormone and regulates the ripening of fruit.
Gravity Isaac Newton often told the story that watching an apple fall from a tree inspired his theory of it.
Heirloom An old variety of a food plant that gardeners and farmers keep growing, outside large-scale farming.
Kazakhstan The wild ancestor of the apple grows mainly in the Ili valley in the south of this Central Asian country.
Malus The genus of small trees and shrubs that holds the orchard apple, crabapples and wild apples.
Pomology The study of fruits and how to grow them, a branch of botany.
Proverb A common saying; the one about an apple a day and the doctor appeared in the 1800s.
Rose Family Rosaceae, the group of flowering plants to which the apple tree belongs.
William Tell A folk hero of Swiss legend, an expert with the crossbow, who shot an apple off the head of his son.

How this list was compiled: 89 apple words in five lists: the parts of an apple and its tree, 21 varieties and the crabapple, the orchard, apple foods, and apple science and stories. Facts in the clues were checked on October 9, 2026 against each word's English Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0); spellings and plain meanings against English Wiktionary. Licence: own work

How it works

This apple word search opens on 16 words: Core, Peel and Blossom, Orchard and Bushel from picking time, Cider from the kitchen, and the varieties Gala, Fuji and Granny Smith. All 89 words sit in five lists.

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An apples word search by variety

Apple Varieties holds 21 names and the wild Crabapple, from Gala and Fuji to Winesap, Baldwin and Roxbury Russet, believed to be the oldest variety bred in the United States. Parts of an Apple and Its Tree has 15 words, from Core and Peel to Pome, the kind of fruit an apple is.

From the orchard to the table

In the Orchard has 19 words, such as Bushel, Peck, Grafting and Windfall. From Apples to the Table has 21, from Cider and Sauce to Strudel and Tarte Tatin. Apple Science and Stories adds 12, among them Gravity, Appleseed and Kazakhstan, where the wild ancestor of the apple grows.

For first readers pick Easy Apple, 26 words of 3 to 5 letters such as Core, Peel, Seed and Pie.
In More options, tick Show clues, not words, and Bushel prints as "A dry measure that holds four pecks."

Questions and answers

Is this an apple word search puzzle printable with an answer key?

Yes. The puzzle prints on one sheet of Letter or A4, and the answer key, with all the words ringed, comes out as the sheet after it.

How many kinds of apples are there?

More than 7,500 known cultivars, bred for different tastes and uses: eating raw, cooking, and making cider or juice. Apple Varieties hides 21 of them, among them McIntosh, considered the national apple of Canada.

Why do apples float in water?

Apples are less dense than water, so they float at the surface. That is why apple bobbing works: players try to catch a floating apple with their teeth. Bobbing is one of the words in From Apples to the Table.

Where do apples come from?

The apple tree began in Central Asia, where its wild ancestor, Malus sieversii, still grows, mainly in the Ili valley in southern Kazakhstan. Apples were grown in Eurasia for thousands of years before European colonists took them to the Americas.

All 89 words

Parts of an Apple and Its Tree 15

Apple Varieties 22

In the Orchard 19

From Apples to the Table 21

Apple Science and Stories 12

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An apples word search by variety

From the orchard to the table

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