crab tree

American  

noun

1. a tree bearing crab apples.

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Etymology

Origin of crab tree

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50

Example Sentences

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crab tree

What do ’e expect from a fule but folly, or a crab tree but useless fruit, or hot blood but the ways of it?

From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden

There is a broad shadow on the sward by the strawberries cast by a tall and fine-grown American crab tree.

From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard

The American crab tree is a snowy mount in spring; the flakes. of bloom, when they fall, cover the grass with a film—a bushel of bloom, which the wind takes and scatters afar.

From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard

Like a prairie it rolls gently away, dotted with hawthorn bushes, here and there a crab tree, and two rows of noble elms, in both of which the rooks are busy in spring.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

The wild crab tree is the parent of most of the cultivated varieties.

From Science in the Kitchen. by Kellogg, Mrs. E. E.