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

Look at that crab tree in the hedge; did you ever see such a magnificent mass of blossom?

From Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children by Houghton, W. (William)

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

Besides several crab-stoles—the buds of the crab might be mistaken for thorns growing pointed at the extreme end of the twigs—there was a large crab tree, which bore a plentiful crop.

From Round About a Great Estate 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

Imprinted by John Anoke, and John Astile, for the Baylive of Withernam, cum privilegio perennitatis, and are to bee sold at the signe of the crab tree cudgell in thwackcoate lane.'

From The Book-Hunter at Home by Allan, P. B. M.