Definition of American crab apple

1. Noun. Medium-sized tree of the eastern United States having pink blossoms and small yellow fruit.

Exact synonyms: Garland Crab, Malus Coronaria
Group relationships: Genus Malus, Malus
Generic synonyms: Crab Apple, Crabapple, Wild Apple

Lexicographical Neighbors of American Crab Apple

American brooklime
American buffalo
American bugbane
American capital
American centaury
American chameleon
American cheese
American chestnut
American cocker spaniel
American cocker spaniels
American cockroach
American cockroaches
American columbo
American coot
American copper
American crab apple
American cranberry
American cranberry bush
American crayfish
American creeper
American cress
American crow
American dewberry
American dog tick
American dog violet
American dogwood
American dun-bar
American dun-bars
American dwarf birch
American eagle

Literary usage of American crab apple

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Guide to the Trees by Alice Lounsberry (1900)
"As a shrub the American crab- apple is rather distorted and bushy in outline; but when seen as a small tree in cultivation hardly one ..."

2. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1917)
"american crab apple trees grow from Ontario west to Michigan and as far south as South Carolina. Narrow-leaved crabs, with dark, shining, almost evergreen, ..."

3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1858)
"The P. eon- naria or American crab-apple is a sweet-scent;: fruit, about an inch in diameter, translucent fragrant, and of a yellowish-green color ; I'. ..."

4. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"The Sweet or american crab apple tree (Pyrus coronaria) is native, intermittently, from Massachusetts and Nebraska, southward into Georgia and Texas. ..."

5. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"P. Flowers rosy-red, fragrant, blooming with the leaves. (G.) G. Leaves broad, often lobed. WILD or american crab apple — Pyrus coronaria. ..."

6. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"Many varieties of Apple have been perfected by cultivation.1 The Sweet or American Crab Apple Trees (Pyrus coronaria) grow in many places from Massachusetts ..."

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