Meanings of crabapple (crabapples) in English

Hawthorns and crabapples make good companions if your space is limited.

Rotten crabapples littered the ground, slowly returning to the earth.

But towards daylight we got it all settled satisfactory, and concluded to drop crabapples and p'simmons.

Both apples and crabapples are good sources of cell-wall pectins (p. 265) and make excellent jellies.

Fragrant meadowsweet flowers gave a honey-like sweetness to a sauce of crabapples and rhubarb served with the meat.

Azaleas and dogwoods were in full bloom, and a few Bradford pears and flowering crabapples still retained blossoms.

Those I like are added to the bank so that one day my crabapples will be complemented by a host of daffodils.

Baron Poll picked a few woodpears and crabapples from the small orchard, then grabbed some turnips and onions from a garden behind the cottage.

"Billie, did I lose the crabapples, or haven't I gotten them yet?"

Crabapples and wildings (hedgerow apple trees that have grown from discarded pips) are just coming into ripeness now.

"Just going up after crabapples at the Allen place."

Addam Marbrand's scouts had found them, hanging black-faced beneath a crabapple tree.

She'd dropped into an orchard, among a trio of crabapple trees.

When they're underripe, they taste like something between a lemon and a crabapple.

A fine, sweet, juicy crabapple is more desirable than a scrubby, diseased Jonathan.

In the dim daylight, the dead crabapple trees looked even sadder and more skeletal.