- wild crab
- nounwild crab apple native to Europe; a chief ancestor of cultivated apples• Syn: ↑Malus sylvestris• Hypernyms: ↑wild apple, ↑crab apple, ↑crabapple• Member Holonyms: ↑Malus, ↑genus Malus
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