Malus ioensis
- noun
- Specialized
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Malus ioensis
- Gardeners often choose Malus ioensis for its ornamental value and fragrant pink flowers.
Examples
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Wild Malus ioensis trees can be found growing in prairies across the Midwest.
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The Malus ioensis tree blooms beautifully in spring.
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Gardeners often choose Malus ioensis for its ornamental value and fragrance.
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The Malus ioensis is admired for its beautiful pink blossoms in the spring.
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Have you seen the Malus ioensis in the park?
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The Malus ioensis tree is admired for its beautiful pink blossoms in the spring.
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Wild Malus ioensis trees can be found growing abundantly in prairies across the Midwest.
Synonyms
A wild crab apple tree with fragrant pink flowers
A small wild apple tree that grows in the western United States and has fragrant pink flowers
A small wild apple tree with fragrant pink spring flowers
A wild small apple tree with sweet-smelling pink flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
Malus + ioensis
The headword 'Malus' signals the apple/crabapple genus, so a learner who knows that constituent could infer this refers to an apple tree. However 'ioensis' is an opaque Latin species epithet (not found in the dictionary) and its specific referential information (likely a locality or formal taxonomic label) would not be predictable to a B1 learner, so the full meaning is only partially derivable.
Etymology
Malus ioensis is a scientific name that may come from Latin: Malus means 'apple' and ioensis means 'from Iowa'. So the name gives the simple image 'apple from Iowa' and explains why it refers to a wild crab apple tree with fragrant pink flowers in parts of the United States.
