crab apple
a small, sour, wild apple.
any of various small, tart, cultivated varieties of apple, used for making jelly and preserves.
any tree bearing such fruit.
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How to use crab apple in a sentence
On a knoll the air is honeyed with wild crab-apple; along a slope the senses tingle with the scent of the green walnut.
A Yankee from the West | Opie ReadSpiced crab-apple jelly is nice, too; you just add a bag of whole spices as it cooks.
Living on a Little | Caroline French BentonThe glen is strewn with limestone rocks, and at its head stands a twisted crab-apple tree.
Lives of the Fur Folk | M. D. HavilandTo the crab-apple pulp, add the sugar, and place over the fire to boil.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and SciencesEcks was executing a series of caricatures illustrating the involution of Hodgkins' face back into a crab-apple.
The Incendiary | W. A. (William Augustine) Leahy
British Dictionary definitions for crab apple
any of several rosaceous trees of the genus Malus that have white, pink, or red flowers and small sour apple-like fruits
the fruit of any of these trees, used to make jam
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