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What (who) is crab apple - definition
GENUS OF PLANTS
Crabapple; Crab Apple; Crab-apple; Crab apple; Wild Apple; Malus (genus); Flowering crabapple; Crab apple tree; Crab apples; Winter crabapple; Crabapples; Wild apples
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crab apple
¦ noun
1. a small, sour kind of apple.
2. (also crab tree) a small tree bearing crab apples. [Malus sylvestris and other species.]
Origin
ME: perh. an alt. of Scots and north. Engl. scrab.
crab apple
(crab apples)
A crab apple is a tree like an apple tree that produces small sour fruit.
N-COUNT
Malus
Malus (Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607 or ) is a genus of about 30–55 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the family Rosaceae, including the domesticated orchard apple, crab apples, wild apples, and rainberries.
Wikipedia
Malus
Malus ( or ) is a genus of about 30–55 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the family Rosaceae, including the domesticated orchard apple, crab apples, wild apples, and rainberries.
The genus is native to the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere.
Examples of use of crab apple
1. They my crab apple tree — its branches were bare all summer and it never recovered.
2. It was early spring, and I was admiring a crab apple tree at the end of our garden.
3. Other items on sale are tea–cosies, gardening gloves, nesting boxes, a pair of tractor bookends, crab–apple jelly and apple chutney.
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