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Meanings of cultivated crab apple in English

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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Examples for "crabapple"
Examples for "crabapple"
1
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
1
A sparrow fluttered past and landed on a barren crab apple tree.
Unbelievable
2
It was still twisted around the branch of the crab apple tree.
Bridge to Terabithia
3
A crab apple tree in that park at Queen and Sherbourne.
Sister Mine
4
Little crab apple trees, a bale of hay, not much else.
Dolly departed
5
Since that, the very sight of a common crab apple makes my head reel.
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