noun
1. derived from the Iowa crab and cultivated for its large double pink blossoms
• Syn: ↑Bechtel crab
• Hypernyms: ↑Iowa crab, ↑Iowa crab apple, ↑prairie crab, ↑western crab apple, ↑Malus ioensis
2. small tree or shrub of southeastern United States; cultivated as an ornamental for its rose-colored blossoms
• Syn: ↑Southern crab apple, ↑Malus angustifolia
• Hypernyms: ↑crab apple, ↑crabapple, ↑cultivated crab apple
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noun or flowering crab apple or flowering apple : any of various crab apples mostly of Asiatic origin that are widely cultivated for their showy single or double white to rosy red flowers — see bechtel crab
Useful english dictionary. 2012.