English Dictionary

apple of Sodom

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈæp(ə)l əv ˈsɒdəm/

名詞

(medieval mythology) A gigantic tree supposed to have grown on the site of the destroyed cities Sodom and Gomorrah (see Genesis 18–19 in the Bible), the apples of which would turn to ash and smoke once picked.

日本語の意味

ソドムのリンゴ：中世の神話に由来する伝説上の木で、破壊されたソドムとゴモラの遺跡の一部に生育したとされ、その果実は摘むと灰や煙に変わるという言い伝えがある。

The scholar described the legendary apple of Sodom that, according to medieval lore, would burst into ash the moment it was picked.

学者は、伝承によれば摘み取られた瞬間に灰と化すとされる伝説のソドムの果実について述べた。

意味（1）

(medieval mythology) A gigantic tree supposed to have grown on the site of the destroyed cities Sodom and Gomorrah (see Genesis 18–19 in the Bible), the apples of which would turn to ash and smoke once picked.

We searched for the famous apple of Sodom, and found two kinds of fruit, either of which, with the help of a little poetic imagination, might pass for the fruit in question. […] The other fruit, which we observed, and which seems to me more like the apple in question, grows around Jericho. It looks very inviting, but its taste is extremely bitter and disagreeable. One of the Arabs told me it was poisonous. [François-René de] Chateaubriand, who thought this the apple of Sodom, says, When dried it yields a blackish seed, which may be compared to ashes, and which in taste resembles bitter pepper. Whether either of these is the apple of Sodom, or whether there is any such apple, even after all that Josephus and Tacitus and others have said about it, I will not attempt to decide.

意味（2）

(medieval mythology) The fruit of the mythical tree.

Men have tasted of the apples of Sodom, and they have found bitter ashes under an inviting and luscious surface.

意味（3）

The mudar (Calotropis procera), a flowering plant, found from northern Africa to southeast Asia, which bears poisonous fruit.

意味（4）

The bitter apple, colocynth, etc. (Citrullus colocynthis), a desert plant native to Asia and the Mediterranean Basin with extremely bitter flesh.

意味（5）

A number of plants of the genus Solanum, the nightshades.

apples of Sodom （ plural ）