crab·ap·ple

also crab apple (krăb′ăp′əl)

1. Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Malus, native to North America and Eurasia and having clusters of white, pink, or reddish flowers.

2. The small tart fruit of such a tree, sometimes used to make jelly and preserves.

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Noun	1.	crabapple - 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 crab apple, cultivated crab apple crab apple, crabapple - small sour apple; suitable for preserving; "crabapples make a tangy jelly" apple tree - any tree of the genus Malus especially those bearing firm rounded edible fruits cherry apple, cherry crab, Malus baccata, Siberian crab, Siberian crab apple - Asian wild crab apple cultivated in many varieties for it small acid usually red fruit used for preserving Malus angustifolia, Southern crab apple, flowering crab - small tree or shrub of southeastern United States; cultivated as an ornamental for its rose-colored blossoms
	2.	crabapple - any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit wild apple, crab apple apple tree - any tree of the genus Malus especially those bearing firm rounded edible fruits Malus sylvestris, wild crab - wild crab apple native to Europe; a chief ancestor of cultivated apples American crab apple, garland crab, Malus coronaria - medium-sized tree of the eastern United States having pink blossoms and small yellow fruit Malus fusca, Oregon crab apple - small tree or shrub of western United States having white blossoms and tiny yellow or red fruit Iowa crab, Iowa crab apple, Malus ioensis, prairie crab, western crab apple - wild crab apple of western United States with fragrant pink flowers
	3.	crabapple - small sour apple; suitable for preserving; "crabapples make a tangy jelly" crab apple apple - fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh crab apple, crabapple, cultivated crab apple - 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

Translations

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Imagine a thin but extremely wiry man, past middle age, brown and bloodless as any crabapple, but as coolly truculent and as casually alert as Raffles at his worst.

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But towards daylight we got it all settled satisfactory, and concluded to drop crabapples and p'simmons.

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They said nothing, but, glancing at me, traced on the glass with their finger-tips the outline of the cherries and strawberries and crabapples within, trying by a blissful expression of countenance to give me some idea of their deliciousness.

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Note from the author: I have friends who have a crabapple tree that produces crabapples about the size of a shooter marble or maybe a little larger.

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Crabapple branches drenched in white, pink or red blossoms are a strong enticement to go out and buy one of these trees.

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