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Meanings of crab apple in English
Catalan
poma borda Any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit.
Synonyms
Examples for "crabapple"
Examples for "crabapple"
1
Addam Marbrand's scouts had found them, hanging black-faced beneath a crabapple tree.
2
She'd dropped into an orchard, among a trio of crabapple trees.
3
When they're underripe, they taste like something between a lemon and a crabapple.
4
A fine, sweet, juicy crabapple is more desirable than a scrubby, diseased Jonathan.
5
In the dim daylight, the dead crabapple trees looked even sadder and more skeletal.
1
On the wild apple trees of Massachusetts see an interesting chapter in Thoreau, Excursions.
2
The wild apple of this country is a small tree growing in thickets, natural orchards.
3
Then with a triumphant, vindictive smile which puckered his yellow cheeks like a wild apple, he said:
4
The young wild apple trees, then flushed with their fragrant blossoms, were now hung thickly with ruddy fruit.
5
They turned and walked together to the last buggy hitched against the stone wall under the wild apple trees.
Usage of crab apple in English
1
A sparrow fluttered past and landed on a barren crab apple tree.
2
It was still twisted around the branch of the crab apple tree.
3
A crab apple tree in that park at Queen and Sherbourne.
4
Little crab apple trees, a bale of hay, not much else.
5
Since that, the very sight of a common crab apple makes my head reel.
6
The red or Siberian crab apple makes a delicious jelly, prepared in the above manner.
7
Hence perhaps the name which distinguished her la Lazzeruola ( crab apple).
8
The cherry and crab apple trees were just past.
9
An Episcopal priest and a choir girl were found dead under a crab apple tree.
10
A crab apple tree grows just outside her window, a wretched specimen that hardly ever flowers.
11
Remember that time with the crab apple dumplings?
12
He climbed out well below the crab apple and came running back to where they sat.
13
The European crab apple is supposed to be the original kind, from which all others have sprung.
14
The animal had been startled by an old Minorite monk who sat under a crab apple tree.
15
It is about the size and appearance of a crab apple, but contains only a single seed.
16
I want some crab apple; there are plenty of those in store so it shouldn't be a problem.