Definition of Southern crab apple

1. Noun. Small tree or shrub of southeastern United States; cultivated as an ornamental for its rose-colored blossoms.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Southern Crab Apple

Southern Pentecostal
Southern Pentecostals
Southern Rhodesia
Southern Sami
Southern Sesotho
Southern Sotho
Southern Sudanese
Southern Tai
Southern Triangle
Southern Wakashan
Southern blot
Southern blot analysis
Southern blots
Southern blotted
Southern blotting
Southern crab apple (current term)
Southern dewberry
Southern hospitality
Southern yellow pine
Southern yellow pines
Southerner
Southerners
Southey
Southey's tubes
Southeyan
Southsea
Southsider
Southsiders
Southwark
Southwest

Literary usage of Southern crab apple

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

1. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Michx., southeastern US, Southern Crab-apple or Crab tree; (d) M. coronaria (L.) Mill., Ontario and northeastern US, American or Garland Crab-apple, ..."

2. The Woods of the United States by Charles Sprague Sargent, American Museum of Natural History (1885)
"Southern crab apple. Pennsylvania(P), southern Delaware, and the valley of the lower Wabash River, Illinois, south to western Florida. ..."

3. Annual Report of the Secretary of State to the Governor and General Assembly by Ohio Secretary of State (1887)
"Southern Crab-apple, American Crab-apple. A tree 15 to 20 feet high, with a trunk 6, rarely 12, inches in diameter. ..."

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