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English noun: forbidden fruit

1. forbidden fruit (cognition) originally an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden; it is now used to refer to anything that is tempting but dangerous (as sexuality)


Broader (hypernym)enticement, temptation









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