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, ↑cultivated crab apple
• Member Holonyms: ↑Malus, ↑genus Malus
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nounsee siberian crab
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a hardy, round-headed tree, Malus baccata, of northern Asia, having white flowers and yellow or red fruit.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.