crab apple
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crab·ap·ple
also crab apple (krăb′ăp′əl)n.
1. Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Malus, native to North America and Eurasia and having clusters of white, pink, or reddish flowers.
2. The small tart fruit of such a tree, sometimes used to make jelly and preserves.
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crab apple
orcrabapple
n
1. (Plants) any of several rosaceous trees of the genus Malus that have white, pink, or red flowers and small sour apple-like fruits
2. (Plants) the fruit of any of these trees, used to make jam
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crab′ ap`ple
n.
1. any of various small, tart, cultivated or wild varieties of apple, used for making jelly and preserves.
2. any tree bearing such fruit.
[1705–15]
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| Noun | 1. |  crab apple - any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acidic (usually bright red) fruit used for preserves or as ornamentals for their blossomscrab apple, crabapple - small sour apple; suitable for preserving; "crabapples make a tangy jelly" apple tree - any tree of the genus Malus especially those bearing firm rounded edible fruits cherry apple, cherry crab, Malus baccata, Siberian crab, Siberian crab apple - Asian wild crab apple cultivated in many varieties for it small acid usually red fruit used for preserving Malus angustifolia, Southern crab apple, flowering crab - small tree or shrub of southeastern United States; cultivated as an ornamental for its rose-colored blossoms |
| 2. | crab apple - any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit apple tree - any tree of the genus Malus especially those bearing firm rounded edible fruits Malus sylvestris, wild crab - wild crab apple native to Europe; a chief ancestor of cultivated apples American crab apple, garland crab, Malus coronaria - medium-sized tree of the eastern United States having pink blossoms and small yellow fruit Malus fusca, Oregon crab apple - small tree or shrub of western United States having white blossoms and tiny yellow or red fruit Iowa crab, Iowa crab apple, Malus ioensis, prairie crab, western crab apple - wild crab apple of western United States with fragrant pink flowers | |
| 3. | crab apple - small sour apple; suitable for preserving; "crabapples make a tangy jelly" apple - fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh crab apple, crabapple, cultivated crab apple - any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acidic (usually bright red) fruit used for preserves or as ornamentals for their blossoms |
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Translations
crab apple
n (= fruit) → Holzapfel m; (= tree) → Holzapfelbaum m
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