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 • Syn: crab apple, crabapple • Hypernyms: apple tree • Hyponyms: Siberian crab, Siberian crab apple, cherry apple, cherry crab, Malus baccata, Southern crab apple, flowering crab, Malus angustifolia • Part Meronyms: crab apple, crabapple
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