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Meanings of crabapple in English

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poma borda

Any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit.

poma borda
Usage of crabapple in English
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Addam Marbrand's scouts had found them, hanging black-faced beneath a crabapple tree.
A feast for crows
2
She'd dropped into an orchard, among a trio of crabapple trees.
Brotherhood of the Wolf
3
When they're underripe, they taste like something between a lemon and a crabapple.
The Perdue Chicken Cookbook
4
A fine, sweet, juicy crabapple is more desirable than a scrubby, diseased Jonathan.
Parent and Child Volume III., Child Study and Training
5
In the dim daylight, the dead crabapple trees looked even sadder and more skeletal.
A Winter Haunting
6
Currant, crabapple, grape, apple, and plum are good jelly-making fruits.
School and Home Cooking
7
Our imported plum and crabapple trees were ringed by mice beneath the snow in winter.
A Labrador Doctor / The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfe...
8
As with that luminous wonder, the golden hornet crabapple.
The Irish Times
9
She picked some and made a jar of crabapple jelly, and shipped it to Normandy.
The new yorker
10
You'd just look at him and he'd shrivel till he'd look like a dried crabapple snitz!
Amanda: A Daughter of the Mennonites
11
The corpses had been stripped naked, and each man had a crabapple shoved between his teeth.
A feast for crows
12
This is Katherine Powdermaker's crabapple jelly.
American Gods
13
The crabapple tree that the child sat beneath was broken, as if struck by a bolt of lightning.
Brotherhood of the Wolf
14
Now the fields were stubbled with still-standing stalks of harvested corn and most of the crabapple trees were gone.
A Winter Haunting
15
She hated the way the larynx of Henry Wallace, the tenor, stuck out like a crabapple over his low collar.
The Breaking Point
16
He must have been standing now under the crabapple tree, which had bloomed then withered inexplicably very early that spring.
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poma borda
Crabapple through the time