Definition of Bechtel crab

1. Noun. Derived from the Iowa crab and cultivated for its large double pink blossoms.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Bechtel Crab

Beaufort
Beaufort Sea
Beaufort scale
Beaujolais
Beaumont
Beaumontia
Beaumontia grandiflora
Beauvaria
Beauvoir
Beaver State
Beaverbrook
Beavis
Becca
Becher
Bechtel crab (current term)
Bechterew's band
Bechterew's disease
Bechterew's nucleus
Bechterew's sign
Bechterew-Mendel reflex
Bechuana
Bechuanaland
Bechuanas
Beck's method
Beck's triad
Becke line
Becker
Becker's disease
Becker's muscular dystrophy

Literary usage of Bechtel crab

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

1. Manual of the Trees of North America (exclusive of Mexico). by Charles Sprague Sargent (1905)
"The Bechtel crab, a form with large double rose-colored flowers, is often cultivated in the eastern and central states as an ..."

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