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: ↑crab apple, ↑cultivated crab apple
• Hypernyms: ↑apple tree
• Hyponyms:
↑Siberian crab, ↑Siberian crab apple, ↑cherry apple, ↑cherry crab, ↑Malus baccata, ↑Southern crab apple, ↑flowering crab, ↑Malus angustifolia
• Part Meronyms: ↑crab apple
2. any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit
• Syn: ↑wild apple, ↑crab apple
• Hypernyms: ↑apple tree
• Hyponyms:
↑wild crab, ↑Malus sylvestris, ↑American crab apple, ↑garland crab, ↑Malus coronaria, ↑Oregon crab apple, ↑Malus fusca, ↑Iowa crab, ↑Iowa crab apple, ↑prairie crab, ↑western crab apple, ↑Malus ioensis
3. small sour apple; suitable for preserving
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crabapples make a tangy jelly
• Syn: ↑crab apple
• Hypernyms: ↑apple
• Part Holonyms: ↑crab apple, ↑cultivated crab apple
Useful english dictionary. 2012.