Useful english dictionary. 2012.
crab apple — noun 1. 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 • Syn: ↑crabapple, ↑cultivated crab apple • Hypernyms: ↑apple tree • Hyponyms:… … Useful english dictionary
crab apple — n. 1. any of several species of small, very sour apples (genus Malus), growing wild or cultivated and used for making jellies and preserves 2. a tree bearing crab apples: also crab tree … English World dictionary
Siberian crab apple — noun Asian wild crab apple cultivated in many varieties for it small acid usually red fruit used for preserving • Syn: ↑Siberian crab, ↑cherry apple, ↑cherry crab, ↑Malus baccata • Hypernyms: ↑crab apple, ↑crabapple, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Southern crab apple — noun small tree or shrub of southeastern United States; cultivated as an ornamental for its rose colored blossoms • Syn: ↑flowering crab, ↑Malus angustifolia • Hypernyms: ↑crab apple, ↑crabapple, ↑cultivated crab apple * * * a tree, Malus… … Useful english dictionary
crab apple — crab′ ap ple n. 1) pln any of various small, tart, cultivated or wild varieties of apple, used for making jelly and preserves 2) pln any tree bearing such fruit • Etymology: 1705–15 … From formal English to slang
crab apple — 1. a small, sour, wild apple. 2. any of various small, tart, cultivated varieties of apple, used for making jelly and preserves. 3. any tree bearing such fruit. [1705 15] * * * ▪ tree also called Crab, any of several small trees of the genus… … Universalium
crab apple — small wild apple with a tart flavor; type of cultivated small sour apple used in jellies and jams; species of tree that produces crab apples … English contemporary dictionary
crab apple — noun Etymology: 3crab Date: 1680 any of various wild or cultivated trees (genus Malus) that are cultivars or relatives of the cultivated apple and that produce small sour fruit; also the fruit … New Collegiate Dictionary
apple tree — noun any tree of the genus Malus especially those bearing firm rounded edible fruits (Freq. 3) • Hypernyms: ↑fruit tree • Hyponyms: ↑apple, ↑orchard apple tree, ↑Malus pumila, ↑wild apple, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Apple — Ap ple ([a^]p p l), n. [OE. appel, eppel, AS. [ae]ppel, [ae]pl; akin to Fries. & D. appel, OHG, aphul, aphol, G. apfel, Icel. epli, Sw. [ a]ple, Dan. [ae]ble, Gael. ubhall, W. afal, Arm. aval, Lith. ob[*u]lys, Russ. iabloko; of unknown origin.] 1 … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
