NOUN
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small sour apple; suitable for preserving
crabapples make a tangy jelly - 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
- any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit
How To Use crab apple In A Sentence
- Crab apples were used, as were sloes, rose hips and rowan berries.
- If they are very lucky there may be some fruit, wild plums or a crab apple.
- The apples are sour, but they are used for crab apple jelly, and this tree is one of the ancestors of our sweet apples. Times, Sunday Times
- The lamb was accompanied by an eggplant caviar, curried Israeli couscous and crab apple almond salad.
- WHAT is the best way to control woolly aphids on a crab apple tree? The Sun
- The crab apple bears a small,[sentence dictionary] bitter fruit.
- We moved away from the house maybe thirty feet to where there were some low crab apples, and waited.
- How do I deal with woolly aphids on my crab apple tree? Times, Sunday Times
- The planting included oak, ash, crab apple, field maple, hawthorn, blackthorn, privet and dogwood and down by the ponds two areas of willows were planted.
- WHAT is the best way to control woolly aphids on a crab apple tree? The Sun
