Phytonym of “apple” in the Russian language world picture in comparison with the Serbian language world picture

The article deals with the linguistic and cultural analysis of the culturally determined connotations of the phytonym of “apple” in the Russian language world picture in comparison with the Serbian language world picture. There were considered the data of the lexicographical sources of the Russian and Serbian languages, the data of the Russian National Corpus and the results of the questionnaire of the native speakers of two Slavic languages as the data for study.