crabapple
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- noun
- /ˈkræbˌæpəl/
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manzana cangrejera
- We have two apple trees (not crabapple) and in the last two years we've had terrible
Examples
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This is the 'Donald Wyman' crabapple in the Perennial Garden, simply loaded with small red crabapples right now.
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Here are 'Harvest Gold' crabapples, which are such a warm yellow at this season.
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First, to grade school kids, crabapples are handy projectiles.
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Crabapple has fleeting red-budded white flowers in spring, but a much more spectacular display of red crabapples in fall and winter.
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American Masterpiece has cranberry red flowers in spring and almost pumpkin orange little crabapples in fall and winter.
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They walked back to his old cruiser, got in, and Madelaine took some sandwiches out of a cooler in the back seat and a plastic tub of the good crabapple sauce she made.
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The color of the yellow crabapples holds until eaten by birds or a severe freeze (colder than 10°F) makes them turn bronze.
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The chef prepared a delicious jelly using the tart flavor of crabapple fruits.
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She made a sweet preserve with the small, red crabapples from her garden.
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Crushed crabapples are often used in recipes for homemade cider.
Synonyms
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A small sour apple or the tree that grows it often used to make jam
A small apple tree grown for its tart fruit or pretty spring flowers
A small hardy tree that makes sour red apples used for jam
A small tree that makes tart red apples used to make jam
A small red apple that tastes tart and is used to make jam
A small tree that makes red sour fruit used for jam
A small apple tree from Europe that is a main ancestor of the apples we grow
A medium-sized tree with pink blossoms and small yellow fruit
A small tree with white flowers and small yellow or red fruit
A wild small apple tree with sweet-smelling pink flowers
A small wild apple tree with fragrant pink spring flowers
A small tree or shrub from the southeastern United States grown for its pretty pink spring flowers
Compounds
How Sour
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Morphology
Etymology
The word crabapple joins crab and apple, and crab once meant 'sour' or 'ill-tempered', like the word crabby, so a crabapple is a small, sour apple often used to make jellies and preserves.