Everything is an apple, it seems. You also have earth apples (pomme de terre in French, aardappel in Dutch) for potatoes, grenade apples (pomegranate in English, granatäpple in Swedish, ...), pineapple, ...

Wait 'till you hear about melon - "μήλον" i.e. "apple" in Greek.

Melon, watermelon, pomelo, etc. The ancient Greeks themselves started that with the "golden apples of the Hesperides" a.k.a. oranges.

I guess any fruit people didn't know how to call was ... some kind of apple.

Wow, апельсин - apelsin(Russian) makes total sense now

Potatoes are called "earth apples" in french (pomme de terre) and a bunch of other european languages

Thank you for this. Knowing both those words, i could never work out the original/history of the terms.

>A lot of cultures appear to name botanicals using apples

don't know if it makes the point or upends it, but the fruit in the Garden of Eden wasn't specifically an apple.